Way Points can be crowdsourced. As a bespoke Game Task, creating a Way Point is one of the simplest and most enjoyable ways to contribute to the wider Hitchhiker world.
A Way Point may be a place of historical interest, a corner with a great view, a useful meeting spot, or something much stranger. In Hitchhiker terms, it is often a little Quirky. That is part of the point. A good Way Point is not only practical. It has atmosphere. It gives people something to notice, talk about, remember, or reinterpret.
Creating Place is useful far beyond a single event. Once a place has been described well, it can be reused in many Guides, especially Place Guides. A place can carry history, provoke story, support fiction, and help people imagine both the future and the past. It can also serve as a location for Gatherings, as a stop on a Mission, or as a possible Film Location.
A Place is defined by making a wiki page for it. That page should usually include: - an image - a map location - a short story or description - useful metadata When many places are defined in this way in the same area, they become easy to combine into routes or Way Lines. Those routes can then be adapted for events, gatherings, walks, missions, and many kinds of guide. This is why places are useful Guide Building Blocks.
A good way to begin creating a Place is simply to start with a Way Point. Take a geolocated photograph, upload it, and connect it to a Mission or a short description. That is often enough to begin. Other people can then augment, extend, reinterpret, or reuse it later. In this sense, a Way Point is a small act of world-building that invites further contributions. See Power of Fork.
# See - Place, Place Guide and Gatherings - Missions, Way Point and Way Lines - Creating Place and the Pan-Galactic Timebank - Guide Building Blocks and the Power of Fork