Hollow-circle pins are people who you are listed as a friend of, but who are not listed as your friend. Solid-circle pins with no border are people who are your friend, but who you are not a friend of. Solid pins with a border are people who are both friend and friend-of. Pink pins are females, blue pins are males, green pins are users who withheld their gender. The square red-black-and-white pin indicates a space where several pins would be clustered too closely. If you rest the mouse over such a pin it will list all those users in the cluster.

Yes, just click "Set My Location" and follow the instructions from there. You will need to unlock your position by confirming, through Livejournal, that you really are the user you claim (to prevent people humorously relocating each other into the sea) - instructions to do this will appear during the process.

No, Australia isn't written at all. Australasia is the term used to include Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and others. It's a synonym of Oceania.

No.

No. It works on specification-compliant browsers, including up-to-date Mozilla-derivatives and Internet Explorer. Update your browser if you want to use the site. Supporting older browsers would require a reduction in effectiveness.

No, I will not add features on request.

No. Adding more values after people are already in the database would leave all the early-adopters with potentially incorrect values. Also, the way the database is arranged doesn't allow for any more to be added.

The privacy policy can be found here.

I'd rather you didn't, but if you really must, here: