User:Ypsilon Voyage Tips and guide

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• Wikivoyager from Vantaa, Finland since 2006 (back then on that other site of course).
• So far I've visited 36 countries and territories on all six populated continents, including a quick circumnavigation of the globe in March-April 2013. However as a kid I've also been on countless almost month-long RV trips around Europe and set my foot in pretty much every European country except the Balkan countries and a couple others.
• Long-term wishlist: Trans Siberian (sadly impossible in practice for the foreseeable future...), Machu Picchu, the remaining European countries, Hong Kong, island-hopping in the Caribbean, return to the land of Oz, plus a lot more.
• I don't want to be an admin because I'm way too lazy. :P
• In w:particle physics the capital Greek letter Υ denotes an Upsilon particle. Note that the symbol should always look like ${\displaystyle \,\Upsilon }$ in order to avoid confusion with a Latin Y denoting the hypercharge. Wikipedia

Both the design of the flag box and the basic idea of the extreme points are shamelessly pirated from Sertmann's user page.

Visited

Just seen from a distance/plane

My records	Place	Coordinates
Northernmost	Nordkapp	71.17086N, 25.78408E
Southernmost	Montevideo	34.9377S, 56.1604W
overland	Tarifa	36.01090N, 5.60380W
Easternmost	Woolloomooloo	33.86927S, 151.22116E
overland	Vardø	70.370556N, 31.107500E
Westernmost	LAX	33.94345N, 118.40899W
overland	Cádiz	36.52067N, 6.28281W
Highest	Great St.Bernhard pass, 2,469m	45.86898N, 7.17085E
Lowest	The North Cape tunnel, -212m	70.92640N, 25.69736E

Mode	Operator	Route	Distance
Train	VR	Helsinki- Kolari	995 km
Bus	Gold Line	Ivalo- Rovaniemi	288 km
Ferry	Finnlines	Helsinki- Travemünde	1132 km

Rank	Operator	Plane type	Route	Distance
10	Scandinavian	737	AGP- ARN	3018 km
9	American	757	JFK- LAS	3618 km
8	American	777	LHR- JFK	5554 km
7	Qantas	380	SIN- SYD	6289 km
6	American	767	DFW- LHR	7644 km
5	British	747	LAX- LHR	8780 km
4	Korean/Air France	747/777	CDG- ICN/ ICN- CDG	8950 km
3	Finnair	340	HEL- SIN	9271 km
2	Air France	777	CDG- EZE/ EZE- CDG	11075 km
1	Qantas	747	SYD- LAX	12051 km
shortest	Lufthansa	?	STR- FRA	157 km

• Wikivoyage:Discover
• Wikivoyage:Airport Expedition
• Category:Articles needing translation
• Wikivoyage talk:Requests for maps
• Wikivoyage:Joke_articles/TravelRant
• Wikivoyage:Featured events

• Wikivoyage:Article templates
• File:Template for districts.svg, File:Regions map template.svg
• Wikivoyage:Article status — Wikivoyage:Airport guide status
• [Watchlist 30d]
• Template_talk:Mapframe#optional_show_parameter show markers on Mapframe
• Wikivoyage:Geocoding + http://maps.wikivoyage-ev.org/w/geomap.php + http://torty3.github.io/geobatcher.html
• Toolforge map quicklink: https://wikivoyage.toolforge.org/w/poimap2.php?lat=-54.9349&lon=-67.6066&zoom=13&layer=W&lang=en&name=Puerto_Williams
• {{Marker|type=see|lat=53.55334|long=10.00804|name=Hauptbahnhof}}
• {{Marker|type=go|lat=-34.8367 | long=-56.0165|name=Montevideo Carrasco International Airport|url=http://www.aeropuertodecarrasco.com.uy/en/}}
• [[Wikipedia:{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}]]
• Dynamic map with search
• <br clear="right" />
• {{mapframe|49.990|36.234|zoom=13}}
• User:Ypsilon/Laboratory
• Special:Contributions
• Wikivoyage:Template_index
• Wikivoyage:World cities/Large
• [1]
• [2]
• Wikivoyage:How_to_use_dynamic_maps#Adding_boundaries_and_tracks, [3]
• {{translated|fr|Cayenne|9 Feb 2014}}
• http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikivoyage/w/artmap.php?lang=en
• Markers, Template:TypeToColor, Module:TypeToColor
• {{pagebanner|TT Banner.jpg}}
• #REDIRECT [[Helsinki]]
• Template:Climate
• {{featurenomination|ftt}}
• https://petscan.wmflabs.org
• {{geo||}}
• Category:Previous Destinations of the month, Category:Previously Off the beaten path, Category:Previous Featured travel topics
• {{colorbox|#FFD350}}
• Template:Mapshape
• Mobile phone coverage map for Connect sections: https://www.nperf.com/en/map/FI/-/-/signal

From Wikivoyage_talk:Destination_of_the_month_candidates/Archive#A_guide_is_a_guide_is_a_guide

"Myself I'm very careful with upgrading articles to guide. These are my own guidelines, and they've worked well so far: For large cities the minimum requirements would be a decent description of the city's history, culture and climate, all "normal" ways for getting in and around, 20 See listings (or 30 See and Do combined) and 20 places in each of Eat, Drink and Sleep (eat and sleep pricified and something in each price class). Buy is for some reason always hard to find meaningful listings for, so a good explanation of where to find shops plus some interesting local things to buy (if there are any) is enough. Overall, all sections with listings should have a paragraph of descriptive text too, if possible. Towards the end precautions for staying safe and healthy, plus ideas where to Go next. There are four sections that are hard to fill; Learn, Work, Connect and Cope, and I don't think it's that bad to leave them empty. Finally, the article should have a banner, a dynamic map and POI coordinates. Smaller cities (articles using the small city template) have somewhat easier criteria. Most notably they don't need to have as many listings, and the Understand section doesn't need to be as extensive. --ϒpsilon (talk) 16:14, 30 March 2015 (UTC)"

Photos taken and uploaded by me are "licensed" under Public Domain. You're welcome to use them for any purpose, be it commercial or non-commercial. No attribution or anything else needed. The same goes for maps and banners insofar it's possible; when making banners I always favor Public Domain photos. Really, the only case when something I upload isn't PD is when I've made a change to someone else's static map.

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• Special:Random - click to draw a random WV page
• Flightradar24 - The planes above you right now, who knows if some Voyager is on board? Includes cockpit view in four directions and all sorts on interesting real time data. Also real time departures and arrivals for airports. Warning: addicting!
• Marinetraffic - If you live near the sea; the ships that are nearby right now. Again, who knows if some Voyager is on board one of them?
• Google Earth - The world in 3D. But they don't have any WV icons...
• NASA World Wind - The little known competitor of Google Earth.
• Great Circle Mapper - Flight distances etc.
• Time and date - and weather and sunset/rise and much more interesting from different places in the world.
• Climate data - average temperature and precipitation, in the case we haven't added it to the article you're reading.