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Does anyone agree with me that this is a case of unnecessary geographic restriction on a category.  If it were made global it would still not fall foul of prevalence criteria, and national, state even county intersections would be possible.  As it is there can only be maybe a couple of hundred of such points in the continental US itself, max.  I think it's a nice idea but too constrained.

I know the global criterion can be argued til the cows come home.  Sometimes it's a good idea for organisational reasons - eg historical markers.  But I can't see how there are enough of these in the world to have a category restricted to just US states.

It's a nice idea though, but IMHO "three border points" would be nicer.  It would need some kind of rule to avoid trivial organisational units.

 

I believe the writeup says there are 60.

Total agreement, and I recommended broadening it in my vote comment.

I too think it should be broader. It doesn't need to include county/parish borders which are a subdivision of state but aren't most countries divided into states? I know Mexico is, and Germany is but not what they call them. Ireland has 30 counties which I believe are the only subdivisions of the country therefore equivalent to the US state. I see no reason to restrict it to just the US.

Fatcat

from the name of the thread itself it sounds like a good ole US Benchmark to me anyway....

The UK a bit odd.  It's divided into four countries or nations (I'm not sure of the technically correct word) of England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland.  The next level down  is the county of which there are quite a lot (30? 40?)  Some are quite small, some quite big.  They get changed periodically when the government wants to distract us all from something else.

France has, I think, Departements (which has an accute accent on the first e, but I can't do that on my keyboard)

Finland has provinces (six of them) - Laanit (there should be dots over those a's)

Switzerland has Cantons (which mercifully don't have any accents on them at all) twenty-odd of them.

I'm just rambling now.

kinda reminds me of those search result overload commercials ive been seeing...

I agree on this being too restrictive globally.  Not only are there only a limited number of these in the US many are not really easily reachable as they are located in the middle of rivers.

The borders of Finland, Norway and Sweden meet at Kilpisjärvi. 

http://www.kilpisjarvi.org/nahtavyydet_en.htm

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