Jervis Bay Territory caches - listed as NSW

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Jervis Bay Territory caches - listed as NSW

Post by iamapom » 07 September 12 6:08 pm

I may be being overly pedantic, but it looks like there are at least 3 and maybe many more GC caches that are incorrectly listed as NSW, when they are clearly in the Jervis Bay Territory.

http://coord.info/GC3GPA5 for instance.
The map here shows the proper location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jervis_Bay_Territory

I'm thinking that Groundspeak should recognise our smallest mainland territory and list them as Jervis Bay Territory, not NSW.

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Post by LouiseAnn » 07 September 12 6:11 pm

Shouldn't they be ACT?

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Post by iamapom » 07 September 12 6:15 pm

No. Again being pedantic .... ".....it has always been a separate Commonwealth territory. The perception that it is part of the ACT stems from the fact that under the terms of the Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act, the laws of the ACT apply to the Jervis Bay Territory."

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Post by mtbikeroz » 07 September 12 6:36 pm

Don't forget Separate Sovereign State in Australia. Can't expect Groundspeak to know everything about all countries!

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Re: Jervis Bay Territory caches - listed as NSW

Post by Toriaz » 07 September 12 8:10 pm

Most Australians don't know that Jervis Bay is a separate territory, so how would groundspeak know? :D

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Post by iamapom » 07 September 12 8:35 pm

I can't see any caches at Hutt River Province though ? And it's a slightly different discussion - a self declared nation missing from GC.com and a whole territory of mainland Australia missing from GC.com, and several caches shown in totally the wrong state.
I have contacts I can provide feedback to GC.......

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Re: Jervis Bay Territory caches - listed as NSW

Post by Big Matt and Shell » 07 September 12 9:45 pm

iamapom wrote:I'm thinking that Groundspeak should recognise our smallest mainland territory and list them as Jervis Bay Territory, not NSW.
I'd take it up with the owners, after all it is them that have selected NSW. I thought most caches were listed as ACT as this is the closest you can get.

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Post by Rock-hopper » 07 September 12 11:11 pm

Woops... I've got 2 caches out in Booderee National Park. I'm well aware that they are in ACT territory, but I listed them as NSW, after giving it a lot of thought. My reasoning was that if visiting cachers did a PQ by state, then these caches would come up in NSW. Most people don't realise that they are going interstate when they travel to the south headland of Jervis Bay. Happy to change them if that's the concensus.

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Post by mtbikeroz » 08 September 12 12:30 am

Yes, doing a PQ by state will miss these if they are not in NSW. Doing a PQ by proximity to a cache or by coords WILL pull these up (if no state selected). Thus, agree with you, people in the area would like to know of ALL caches in the vicinity. (Most would naturally select NSW & perhaps coords, unaware of the little enclave)

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Post by gmj3191 » 08 September 12 12:52 am

iamapom wrote:I may be being overly pedantic
Ummm yes. I think we should let sleeping territories lie.
Thanks for the heads up about this however, something I didn't know about.

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Post by Lucy » 08 September 12 10:28 am

It may be a moot point anyway, as there is a strong push to give it back to NSW.

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Post by Yurt » 08 September 12 11:10 pm

Lucy wrote:It may be a moot point anyway, as there is a strong push to give it back to NSW.
Next, the ACT! :mrgreen:

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Post by Big Matt and Shell » 10 September 12 3:08 pm

But who would want all of those politicians?

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Post by Bewilderbeest » 11 September 12 12:08 pm

Big Matt and Shell wrote:But who would want all of those politicians?
There are only 4 of them (2 Reps and 2 Senators)! The rest are blow-ins!



(Assuming that if the ACT was incorporated into NSW, the NSW Government would take over and the ACT Assembly would be disbanded)

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Re: Jervis Bay Territory caches - listed as NSW

Post by mtrax » 11 September 12 12:37 pm

err should this be posted in NSW or ACT forum? =; :D ](*,)

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