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Hmmm 🤨
The live tracking thinks I have barely left Rovaniemi
But I most definitely have, and am two thirds of the way to Kemi
I simply cannot get any decent GPS signal here, even between carriages
Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?
Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?
EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area
But I have questions!
The antlers on that sign are wrong.
And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?
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@jon Maybe next time you could use live data from operators retrieving your train numbers to more reliably update the pin across your ..checks notes.. 7 countries travelled
(Please don’t kill me I promise I won’t suggest this again.)
@stefanlindbohm Ha. And how hard is it going to be to code that?
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@jon I think you've derailed, Jon.
@thisislieven See the later posts! Somehow GPS is just not working.
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Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?
Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?
EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area
But I have questions!
The antlers on that sign are wrong.
And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?
Reindeer herding area.
Of course the wikipedia article is only in Finnish: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poronhoitoalue.
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Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?
Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?
EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area
But I have questions!
The antlers on that sign are wrong.
And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?
@jon I think this marks the southern boundary of the area where reindeer flocks are tended: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poronhoitoalue
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Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?
Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?
EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area
But I have questions!
The antlers on that sign are wrong.
And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?
@jon This is about reindeer. They roam freely in the marked area. Elk you find mostly in the south.
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@stefanlindbohm Ha. And how hard is it going to be to code that?
@jon I actually don’t think it’s currently possible
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Can some Finn please explain this road sign seen in Kemijärvi earlier?
Is it "you will only hit elk on the roads in half of Finland"? Is there some elk wall across the middle of the country?
EDIT: OK, it's a reindeer herding area
But I have questions!
The antlers on that sign are wrong.
And given I was a LONG way into the area, why do I need the map?
@jon It shows where reindeers are herded. I guess the regulations related to collision with a reindeer are different in that area or something? And maybe means ”we won’t bother putting up separate warning signs all over the place, you just have to be aware”
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@thisislieven See the later posts! Somehow GPS is just not working.
@jon Do you have access to Galileo? Maybe that works - and is our own European system to boot!
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Reindeer herding area.
Of course the wikipedia article is only in Finnish: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poronhoitoalue.
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@jon I think this marks the southern boundary of the area where reindeer flocks are tended: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poronhoitoalue
@davidjamesweir @jon 36% of Finland’s territory! (Much less of its public roads, of course.)
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@jon But you might have arrived with your car on the train, and not actually driven over the boundary.
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@jon Good question (and I suppose then it is not just the southern boundary)…
(The Finnish road sign thing that I always get confused by is the ”yleisrajoitus” [general speed limit] annotation on 80 km/h signs on single carriageway roads when leaving slower areas. I mean, of course 80 km/h is the general speed limit, so why the extra annotation? If it were for foreigners, why is it only in Finnish/Swedish? I learned to drive in Finland so I remember learning about the sign you posted, but not about the ’yleisrajoitus’ annotation.)
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@jon But you might have arrived with your car on the train, and not actually driven over the boundary.
@tml Hmmm. Maybe. Tenuous, but perhaps. (This was about 4km from the railway station)
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@jon I actually don’t think it’s currently possible
@stefanlindbohm seven raspberry pis, seven infrastructure manager cupboards, and lots of lawyers
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@tml Hmmm. Maybe. Tenuous, but perhaps. (This was about 4km from the railway station)
@jon You went for a long refreshing walk along the road away from the centre of Kemijärvi?
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@jon This is about reindeer. They roam freely in the marked area. Elk you find mostly in the south.
@jon Here is an elk sign for comparison. They should be taken seriously, elk accidents are no fun.
Reindeer, on the other hand, are pretty harmless and max a nuisance: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sRsIZiA8AZA
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@jon You went for a long refreshing walk along the road away from the centre of Kemijärvi?
@tml Yes, to Kallaanvaara, to find this!
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