I was just preparing for my trip to SOTM-US and ran across something in the fine print that caught me by surprise so I thought I'd share. The email from the conference organizers made a note that we can not take "large" backpacks into the building. I assumed this meant you couldn't take the kind of backpack you would use for a weekend hike but that a standard school backpack was ok. But then I found the UN's security web page[1] and it gives a maximum size for all bags as: 14" (35cm) wide x 13" (33cm) high x 4" (10cm) deep
That is *TINY*! I mean even most Hello Kitty backpacks for children are 16" tall. My laptop bag exceeds this size. I'm pretty sure I've seen purses larger than this. So now I'm sitting here trying to decide if I need to go buy a smaller laptop bag tomorrow. Or does anyone know if perhaps registered conference attendees are allowed slightly larger items than the general population coming in for a tour? Or maybe they'll let an inch or two slide? If they enforce it strictly, they probably have bins that are exactly this size that everything has to fit into to go through the x-ray machine... Anyway, I guess pack light and I hope to see you in New York! Toby [1] http://visit.un.org/content/security _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
