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<div>There are some essential things you should remember when you are going hitchhiking. [[Hitchwiki]] suggests you keep these in mind when starting your career as an enthusiastic thumber:<br />
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[[Image:Warsaw-poznan.JPG|thumb|250px|left|You'll be seeing a lot of this.]]<br />
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== Take the most used route ==<br />
The shortest is not the best in all the cases. If there is no traffic, there are no rides to share. Think where the trucks are going: industrial areas, ports/airports etc.<br />
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The fastest and easiest routes are usually ones between two major cities, passing a lot of countryside on the way. If you're planning to go through an area with dense population (eg. [[Ruhr Area]], [[Randstad]], [[London|Southeast England]]) and out the other side, then remember that many vehicles will be local traffic, so it's often a good idea to find a route that avoids these areas. E.g. when going to the the South of [[France]] from the [[Netherlands]], you better avoid [[Paris]]: go through [[Luxemburg]] instead.<br />
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Avoid trying to get lifts along routes that don't make sense to the drivers. It's rare that a driver, travelling north on a motorway, will soon turn round and travel southeast for a long distance.<br />
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== [[Maps|Carry a good map]] ==<br />
You want to know were you are going. It also helps if [[gas station]]s are marked, and you don't need city maps. Try and find a map that you don't have to open out to one large sheet of paper every time you want to use it; you will be using it often. Book-style maps are best.<br />
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'''Map Tips: Positive'''<br />
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* The ''Shell Euroatlas'' is good for [[Europe]], however, it's difficult to find.<br />
* The ''Falk Länderkarte'' series (in German, but can be understood by everyone) is brilliant for individual European countries, with a useful, clever and compact fold-out page system. It is easy to find but only inside of [[Germany]] and neighbouring countries.<br />
* The maps by ''Marco Polo'' are excellent for Europe. The 1:800,000 ratio version is the best (the name of this map changes in different countries). It is printed in [[Germany]] but is available across the continent.<br />
* In Scandinavia (especially Finland) - the ''Esso'' country maps are great, and free from any Esso petrol station in [[Finland]] <br />
* For the [[United Kingdom]] AA maps are good but can get a bit too large.<br />
* In Germany, you can get a booklet for free at the rasthof restaurants which provide a map of all the country's rasthof and the information about every one of them.<br />
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It's recommended you have a map that is at least 1:1,000,000 ratio. 1:750,000 is usually good enough.<br />
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Remember that petrol stations often have maps for sale, including very local ones. If you need to find out the geography of the local area, simply walk into the shop, pick up a local map, study it, get the information you need, then put it back and walk out. Many service stations also have large maps on walls or notice boards.<br />
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'''Map Tips: Negative'''<br />
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* ''Michelin'' Individual Country maps are not the best to use, they do not list the Services Area and lots of useful information are absent, the scale ratio is often not good enough.<br />
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== [[Where to hitchhike|Be in a good, safe spot]] ==<br />
[[Image:Amylin_hitching_northern_ca.jpg|thumb|250px|left|This could be a good spot. You're easily visible, the drivers slow down at the junction, and there is an obvious place for them to stop.]]<br />
It is basically possible to hitchhike from everyplace, just keep a single rule of thumb in mind: The faster the cars the more space for the cars to stop is needed.<br />
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Be in a place where the cars can see you from a distance and stop safely. You don't want to be driven over. This is maybe the biggest [[Hitchhiker's safety | danger]] in hitchhiking. <br />
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This is the case that the drivers consider as well. Few drivers stop unless it is safe for them. Some do, but you shouldn't count on them, as they are the minority. Therefore consider the safety of the driver as well, you don't want to involve them in an accident if they can't pull over safely. Make sure to not stand on the way, the driver will usually make its decision to stop or not while he sees you at a distance and will get ready to pull over just next to you or right behind you. If you stand too much on the way (of the normal pulling aside triangle) you will make it complicated for him and he might change his mind. So one good option is to 'make sure' that your body language point out the area he would pull over in total comfort.<br />
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== Stay positive, smile and laugh ==<br />
It is easy to become bored or frustrated when waiting for a ride, but remember that a good attitude will help you get rides. Keep your spirits up by singing, laughing and simply smiling. A grumpy hitchhiker may get rides out of sympathy, but a happy hitchhiker will get better rides and go further distances in less time. If you're in a group, try dancing or clapping your hands at the same time, it makes the drivers smile and lifts come much more often!<br />
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== [[How to face traffic|Make eye contact with drivers]] ==<br />
Hitchhiking means making a connection with a person driving by, convincing him or her to stop. To best do this, make sure drivers can see the 'whites of your eyes'. Remove sunglasses and keep your hat higher on your head. Smile while you look at the oncoming cars. If you are looking a different direction or your head is down it is easy for drivers to pass by without relating to you. If you cannot see the person in the car, just look at the windshield where a face should be. Focus on each car until it passes. If traffic is light, let your gaze follow each car expectantly. If there is too much traffic, pay attention to each nearby car for a moment. The more you do this, the less time you will wait for rides.<br />
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'Mark Snyder and his co-workers (1974) found that hitchhikers doubled the number of ride offers by looking drivers straight in the eye. A personal approach, as my panhandler knew, makes one feel less anonymous, more responsible.' (Source: Social Psychology, Myers. p.503 Social Relations)<br />
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Respectable eyes for male drivers and puppy eyes for female drivers seem to work quite well.<br />
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== Work with the weather ==<br />
If it's hot, choose a hitchhiking spot where you can get some shade, in case you have to wait for some hours.<br />
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If it's wet, drivers may feel sorry for you, and choose to help you out. No-one likes a soggy hitchhiker in their car, so keep an umbrella handy. Better: stay dry at a [[gas station]].<br />
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Thunderstorms are a blessing. If, during a dry day, you notice that a thunderstorm is coming, don't worry. When the storm hits you, keep you and your possessions under an umbrella and keep signalling. Drivers will feel '''very''' sorry for you, and many will stop for you. While waiting on the roadside, [[User:tmoon|Tom]] was hit by three thunderstorms in 2006, all of which got him a ride in less than ten minutes. The best example was in [[Cologne]] - after waiting for two hours without a ride offer, a storm came and there were three offers in five minutes (took the third one, it was a short ride and at the next petrol station another ride came within two minutes).<br />
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== [[Appearance|Types of clothing]] ==<br />
[[Image:Img0080ow5.jpg|thumb|280px|left|Many hitchhiking spots are dusty. White shoes not advised.]]<br />
Although this may seem to be a small matter, types and colour of clothing are very important. Try to wear light, even bright and colorful clothes, and have your non-thumbing hand visible since light coloured clothes inspire more [[trust]] than darker clothes. Also, if the weather permits it, try to keep your forearms visible. If people can see your hands and arms, they'll be less likely to see you as a threat, or as someone trying to conceal something. A fun and colorful clothes/hat is a great way to inspire people to pick you up!<br />
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If you can, don’t wear your old clothes or clothes that might frighten a driver (such as a T-shirt with a skull). Conservative people only take well shaved guys with proper clothes. Liberal-minded people always take you, but even conservative (or old) people can be very helpful on your trip.<br />
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Avoid wearing black. Even having a smart black shirt could keep you stuck in one place for a long time. Some have found that caps. (Though Simon from [[Sweden]], with shaved head and beard found it much easier wearing a cap always, because people seem to be afraid of people with shaved heads. Black or blue woolly hats are awful too. If the weather permits, wear light coloured shorts and a bright colourful t-shirt or a smart short sleeved shirt. Although you may have no choice on whether you have luggage, some hold that hitching without luggage is quicker as the driver knows you're not concealing anything. But some drivers think that carrying a backpack makes you more of a traveler and will only pick up people with backpacks (e.g. [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] and [[amylin]] experienced this in [[New Zealand]]).<br />
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== [[Signs]] ==<br />
A thumb or hand gesture will work fine for hitchhiking (depending on the region). But in some cases, the use of a sign displaying your destination or general direction will increase your odds.<br />
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A sign just saying '''"PLEASE".''' can work sometimes. (It worked for Max, www.couchsurfing.com user:mxnnx.)<br />
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When you're hitchhiking on a road that goes to plenty of destinations: The driver will be more likely to stop if he knows that you're going the same way he does.<br />
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When the traffic is too heavy: The driver will be less likely to say "Somebody else is going to stop" if he sees that you want to go exactly his way.<br />
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If you're going from [[Barcelona]] to [[Amsterdam]], consider writing "[[Paris]]", or just [[Perpignan]], on your sign, when you start in Barcelona. Few people will be going to Amsterdam or even Paris, directly. There's a dilemma, though, because if the destination you write is too close, you won't make good time, and if it's too far, nobody will be heading all the way there and so won't feel confident in stopping for you. A good solution to this is to simply use your direction of travel, i.e. "East."<br />
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It often helps if you write the sign in the same language as the drivers you're trying to attract. If you can show some affinity to the drivers' country, it usually increases your chances of a lift. If you want to make a sign in a language that you don't know (whether you need it now or in the future), try asking drivers or [[petrol station]] staff for help.<br />
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To make the sign, it's better to use cardboard or similar with a thick black marker. Write neatly in big, block letters the name of a city or the name of a road, or both. You're in charge.<br />
[[Image:Img_l_1306483.jpg|thumb|180px|right|[[User:MayaCova|MayaCova]] using was using a white board with considerable success.]]<br />
If you have a chance to plan a long hitchhiking trip in advance, some find using an erasable white board as a sign to be very useful for making big, clear and reusable signs.<br />
Remember the sign has to be read from a distance. At 100km/hr, a vehicle is covering approx 30 metres/second. The average reaction time when driving is 1.5 to 2.5 seconds, so 45 to 75 metres has gone before they start to stop. If you want them to stop, then you not only have to place yourself in the rignt location so they can see that you are a traveller and not just cagging a lift (this is what the sign does), you also have to have a sign that is readable. The more space between each letter the better to be read from a distance. (This is called Kernel, eg see road signs specifications.)<br />
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If space dosen´t permit a long city name shorten it to something everyone will understand. For example [[Amsterdam]] could be '''A'dam''' and [[Hamburg]] could be '''HH'''.<br />
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Signs don't just have to list a place - Much success can be had (in the proper setting) with more off-the-wall signs like "We're Awesome!", "Free Cookies!", "Runaway Bride", etc.<br />
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Artwork on a sign can also be helpful, particularly if there are simple images that are commonly related to your context. For instance, when hitching out of Austin, [[Texas]] (home of the Longhorns, which are absurdly popular there), adding a Longhorns logo to the sign was a big improvement.<br />
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While living in a small village near a larger town my housemates and I found that using a sign decreased waiting times from 20-40 minutes average to about 10-20 minutes even though there were no other villages on the way. When I put this to my drivers some of them said that the sign made me look like a proper hitch-hiker.<br />
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If you have the chance, adding "Please" onto your signs could be a great idea. As well as being polite, writing "Please" in a certain language can indicate that you are a good speaker of that language, and this can be used to attract certain groups of driver who were ignoring you before. However, your main message is the destination/road number/compass direction. "Please" is an extra word for the driver to read, and trying to read that word can become a big distraction from the main message. Also, as you're clearly in a desperate position it's already accepted that you are being grateful for any assistance; once a driver stops, you can say "Please" as much as you like. Experiment with "Please" for yourself, and see what happens.<br />
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[[Image:Carl_Nai_Maroc.jpg|thumb|327px|In the [[UK]], road names work well.]]<br />
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== [[Safety | Safe hitchhiking]] ==<br />
Wear bright colored clothes or a reflective warning vest while walking along the road.<br />
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Say no, if you don't feel safe! Trust your instinct, when it says no. This doesn't happen often, though. Minimizing risk is not being a coward, it's being smart. If you don't feel comfortable with someone, just don't ask him/her, there will be enough other cars. Most people who pick up hitchhikers are friendly and don't mind a no.<br />
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If you want more security, send an SMS of the number plate of the car to a friend.<br />
A nice way of getting out of a car without offending a driver if you're uncomfortable, is to pretend that you're going to be sick. Tell the driver not to wait, and run away from the road.<br />
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Girls check out the safety guide tailored to your needs at http://girls.hitchbase.com<br />
== In the car ==<br />
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Once you've actually managed to get in the car and start heading towards your destination, it's all a matter of being courteous. Remember, your driver didn't have to pick you up at all. Settle in, get comfortable, but of course, not too comfortable. Keep your shoes off the dashboard, don't pass any form of gas (from either end), etc. In other words, don't do anything to offend your driver! <br />
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Your driver may have picked you up for many possible reasons. One of the main reasons is companionship on a long journey. That means you have to talk to the driver. Have a few things to talk about in mind before you get in (What's your name? Where are you headed? Oh yeah? What's there?). If the driver doesn't seem too interested in talking you can relax or read a book.<br />
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If not, keep it simple to begin with. A solid rule that should be followed by any hitcher is to try to shy away from talking about politics with a driver who has differing view points than yourself. People have the tendency to get really worked up when it comes to politics, or religion, so if they mention something that your political or religious views disagree with, try to say, "I'm not going to get into that with you, my friend" or something like that. Many a hitcher has been seen thrown out of cars due to a fiery political discussion.<br />
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Some drivers will go extra kilometres off their route to help you, if you ask nicely.<br />
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Make sure you know where the driver will drop you off, and try to choose the ideal drop-off point yourself - despite their efforts to help, drivers sometimes leave you in very bad places. If the drop-off point is not helpful to you, then say so, and the driver may take you away to find a better spot.<br />
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Don't get lost while you're in a car! Some drivers have a terrible sense of direction and may need your help. Also, knowing where you are when you leave the vehicle will save a lot of time.<br />
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== If you're lost... ==<br />
...then it's maybe a good idea to stop travelling until you know where you are. Ask whoever you can for help. Look on road signs for city names and road numbers, and try to match them with your [[map]].<br />
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If getting lost isn't a problem because you have no fixed destination, then stop worrying and enjoy the ride ;).<br />
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== If you've gone the wrong way... ==<br />
...then work out whether it's best to turn around, to carry on in the new direction (either trying another route, or changing your destination), or to stop hitchhiking. If you're on a motorway, then it might be tough to turn around.<br />
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If you decide to turn around, then watch out: it can be hard to find a lift that gets you back to your route, ''and'' travels in the right direction. You could easily get back to your route, and have to turn round a second time.<br />
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== [[Finding accommodation]] ==<br />
[[Image:Roads.JPG|thumb|250px|left|[[At night]], it'll get tougher. Apart from much less traffic, people may trust you less (especially if you're male) and you may be in more danger (especially if you're female). Also, you're not as visible as you were before. But if someone does decide to help, they will probably help you as much as they can...]]<br />
On longer hitchhiking trips you may need to camp along the way, if you did not receive a ride to your intended destination. Sometimes you can find a hostel or local host for the night, but just in case: bring a sleeping bag and tarp or tent with you. Make sure to bring clothes that will suit you for night weather.<br />
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It is also a good idea to check out [http://couchsurfing.com CouchSurfing.com] (more active), [http://bewelcome.org BeWelcome.org] and [http://www.hospitalityclub.org Hospitality Club] (good for finding phone numbers in smaller places) for free accommodation. If there's a YMCA center in town, see if they have a room for the night. There are many hitchhikers and it is easy to find a couple of places to stay while on the road or even at your destination. A fresh shave and shower will also greatly increase the chances of getting picked up.<br />
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If you can't find anywhere to sleep there are still other ways out of the situation. If you are lucky enough to be at a 24 hour gas station just keep drinking coffee and keep hitching through the night. (Joe: My advice would be not to. After about 11p.m., it's probably best just to accept that you've been lucky and are stuck at a petrol station where you can stay warm. If you take another lift, you might end up in the middle of nowhere at three in the morning.) At night don't bother trying to get lifts with a sign, just ask people at the gas station when they go to pay. Keep in mind that it gets really quiet between 2:00 and 5:00 even at a busy autobahn service area. The other alternative is to find a truck (or a car) going a really really long way and crash out on the way. Make sure you trust the driver or do it with 2 hitchers taking turns to sleep. The downside to this is that you might wake up a long way from where you wanted to be but at least you didnt have to sleep in the gutter.<br />
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== Getting to the nearest city ==<br />
It's tough to hitchhike out of city centres. But sometimes (if you're tired, hungry, thirsty, ill etc.) you'll need to go off your route and take a pause in the nearest city. Hey, if you're flexible with your travel arrangements, you may decide to stay there for a bit longer...<br />
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If hitchhiking to the city is too hard for whatever reason, and the city is too far to walk, then take public transport. Head for nearby areas of houses: they often have bus stops.<br />
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Most petrol stations on motorways have a special access road for staff and delivery/emergency vehicles. Many petrol stations also have local maps you can look at to find bus stops near you, if you exit via the special access road.<br />
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== Use buses and trains ==<br />
It's not worth trying to hitchhike at all costs. Sometimes it's just more convenient to take a bus to get to a highway or to your final destinations. This is the case especially when leaving or arriving at big cities or at night. Usually you can get away without paying on public transport anyway. Just get on and take a seat. If you see someone at the stop getting on that might want to see your ticket when they get on - jump off and take the next one. Trams in particular are easy to blackride, as are buses in [[Eastern Europe]]. [[England]]'s not a great country for blackriding, impossible on buses (pretty much), and hard on trams. But for short hops on local trains, it's possible. Bear in mind though, if you get caught, you'll have to pay full fare for a ticket, and possibly a high penalty as well. You may even end up with a criminal record.<br />
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= Related links and references =<br />
* [http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kjokisal/liftaus/ Hitchhiking Guide to Europe]<br />
* [http://www.digihitch.com/sections-viewarticle-27.html Sparkie's Guide to Hitchhiking at digihitch.com]<br />
* [http://www.hitchbase.com Worldwide Database of Places for Hitchhikers]<br />
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[[Category:General info]]</div>62.168.186.177https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Mexico&diff=22201Mexico2008-07-02T14:11:11Z<p>62.168.186.177: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox Country<br />
|country = of Mexico<br />
|pop = 108,700,891<br />
|currency = Peso (MXN)<br />
|language = Spanish (''unofficial'')<br />
|hitch = {{good}}<br />
|capital = [[Mexico City]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Mexico''' is a country in [[North America]]. Hitching in Mexico is extremely easy[[#*|*]]. In many places, locals hitch to get home from the grocery store, etc. You'll ride in a the back of a lot of pick-ups, and many people will offer you food and drinks. <br />
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The best place to get a ride is not on the side of the road or an on-ramp, like in many other countries, but at petrol stations or exits from shopping centres. <br />
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Even if you don't ask people and stick out your thumb you can make 500 km a day if you are serious. <br />
Don't take drugs or weapons with you, because you likely may be checked by one of the numerous military posts especially in the north.<br />
In some mid-sized cities like tampico, oaxaca, pachuca there are no transit roads and you have to cross the city. Taking a bus makes things easier.<br />
The Guia Roji road atlas with the maps of the major cities is maybe worth the 100 Pesos.<br />
<map lat='23' lng='-102' zoom='4' view='0' float='right'/><br />
The best way to hitchhike in Mexico is to go to the petrol stations and talk with the customers (and even if you Spanish is good, try to speak with a foreign accent ;). Some petrol station in the north states don't allow people do that, but you can try to speak with the manager, it works sometime. Otherwise, just stay on the cashier of the petrol station, or at the door of the food store or anything else (they can't forbid you that), and ask.<br />
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In rural parts of Mexico it's common to see whole families hitchhiking together, or for a pick-up to stop for several different groups of hitchers until the back of the truck is completely full. Because pick-up trucks are the vehicle of choice, it's quite easy to get rides just outside of any small town (knock on the back window when you're ready to get out). Occasionally waits are long, due more to local traffic than reticence towards picking up hitchhikers. On some heavily touristed routes with poor public transportation, payment is expected, though it shouldn't be more than 20 pesos (about $2) at most. <br />
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Hitchhiking is an easy alternative to taking the train, and occasionally the only way to travel between small communities through which a bus may pass once daily, or less. In small towns, ask around at stores if anyone's headed up the mountain that day. <br />
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== * ==<br />
It may be extremely easy to hitch in mainland Mexico, but in the Baja California peninsula, it's a completely different story! In Baja California, there is only one road, the HWY 1, which isn't hell to hitchhike on but requires a lot of patience: there are often large distances in between cities (which are barely even cities, rather a few ranches and cactus farms) and even larger distances between petrol stations (example: El Rosario is the last one before Guerrero Negro, about 360 km further down in Baja California Sur). Getting stuck in the middle of the desert is NOT fun, and many people can only take you from town to town as it is local traffic or gringos doing one of the many races down in the Baja. Also, unless you are planning on staying in Baja and going back up towards the USA-Mexico border, you should hitchhike from Mexicali south.. If you plan on heading to mainland Mexico from the Baja, you must take a ferry in either La Paz or Cabo towards Mazatlan, which costs about 80$ USD.<br />
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== Cities ==<br />
* [[Mexico City]]<br />
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== Hitchhiking in Mexico for Single Women ==<br />
One of the great things of hitchhiking in Mexico is that even if you travel alone, you rarely have to hitch-hike alone, because hitchhiking is such a common activity among locals. For single females, joining the colourfully clothed "crowds" of locals when they jump on the back of a pick-up truck not only adds to the fun, but also your safety.<br />
This is especially handy as in certain areas -like in the North, around Chihuahua- men will take you for a prostitute (no matter if you have a large bag and totally look like a foreigner).<br />
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[[es:México]]</div>62.168.186.177https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Mexico&diff=22200Mexico2008-07-02T14:09:33Z<p>62.168.186.177: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox Country<br />
|country = of Mexico<br />
|pop = 108,700,891<br />
|currency = Peso (MXN)<br />
|language = Spanish (''unofficial'')<br />
|hitch = {{good}}<br />
|capital = [[Mexico City]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Mexico''' is a country in [[North America]]. Hitching in Mexico is extremely easy[[#*|*]]. In many places, locals hitch to get home from the grocery store, etc. You'll ride in a the back of a lot of pick-ups, and many people will offer you food and drinks. <br />
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The best place to get a ride is not on the side of the road or an on-ramp, like in many other countries, but at petrol stations or exits from shopping centres. <br />
<br />
Even if you don't ask people and stick out your thumb you can make 500 km a day if you are serious. <br />
Don't take drugs or weapons with you, because you likely may be checked by one of the numerous military posts especially in the north.<br />
In some mid-sized cities like tampico, oaxaca, pachuca there are no transit roads and you have to cross the city. Taking a bus makes things easier.<br />
The Guia Roji road atlas with the maps of the major cities is maybe worth the 100 Pesos.<br />
<map lat='23' lng='-102' zoom='4' view='0' float='right'/><br />
The best way to hitchhike in Mexico is to go to the petrol stations and talk with the customers (and even if you Spanish is good, try to speak with a foreign accent ;). Some petrol station in the north states don't allow people do that, but you can try to speak with the manager, it works sometime. Otherwise, just stay on the cashier of the petrol station, or at the door of the food store or anything else (they can't forbid you that), and ask.<br />
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In rural parts of Mexico it's common to see whole families hitchhiking together, or for a pick-up to stop for several different groups of hitchers until the back of the truck is completely full. Because pick-up trucks are the vehicle of choice, it's quite easy to get rides just outside of any small town (knock on the back window when you're ready to get out). Occasionally waits are long, due more to local traffic than reticence towards picking up hitchhikers. On some heavily touristed routes with poor public transportation, payment is expected, though it shouldn't be more than 20 pesos (about $2) at most. <br />
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Hitchhiking is an easy alternative to taking the train, and occasionally the only way to travel between small communities through which a bus may pass once daily, or less. In small towns, ask around at stores if anyone's headed up the mountain that day. <br />
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== * ==<br />
It may be extremely easy to hitch in mainland Mexico, but in the Baja California peninsula, it's a completely different story! In Baja California, there is only one road, the HWY 1, which isn't hell to hitchhike on but requires a lot of patience: there are often large distances in between cities (which are barely even cities, rather a few ranches and cactus farms) and even larger distances between petrol stations (example: El Rosario is the last one before Guerrero Negro, about 360 km further down in Baja California Sur). Getting stuck in the middle of the desert is NOT fun, and many people can only take you from town to town as it is local traffic or gringos doing one of the many races down in the Baja. Also, unless you are planning on staying in Baja and going back up towards the USA-Mexico border, you should hitchhike from Mexicali south.. If you plan on heading to mainland Mexico from the Baja, you must take a ferry in either La Paz or Cabo towards Mazatlan, which costs about 80$ USD.<br />
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== Cities ==<br />
* [[Mexico City]]<br />
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== Hitchhiking in Mexico for Single Women ==<br />
One of the great things of hitchhiking in Mexico is that even if you travel alone, you rarely have to hitch-hike alone, because hitchhiking is such a common activity among locals. For single females joining the coloufully clothed "crowds" of locals when they jump on the back of a pick-up truck not only adds to the fun, but also your safety.<br />
This is especially handy as in certain areas -like in the North, around Chihuahua- men will take you for a prostitute (no matter if you have a large bag and totally look like a foreigner).<br />
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[[es:México]]</div>62.168.186.177https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=22199User talk:MrTweek2008-07-02T13:58:36Z<p>62.168.186.177: </p>
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<div>==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
P.S. <br />
Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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hey,<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.</div>62.168.186.177https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=22197User talk:MrTweek2008-07-02T13:51:25Z<p>62.168.186.177: </p>
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<div>==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
P.S. <br />
Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
<br />
== Apache difficulties ==<br />
<br />
I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
<br />
Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
<br />
Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
hey,<br />
<br />
i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
<br />
This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
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:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.</div>62.168.186.177