Hi,
In my response to this, and after much discussion in my office, we have
assumed one fact:
My answer (as general as it is): in America
Our assumption: America is the only (??) country in the (free) world using
the imperial system.
Just a thought.!
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Anitra Robertson
GIS Analyst
Tattersall
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relax,
you're at an UK travel agent... they are the cost of flights to those
cities in 'air mile' vouchers..you know, those things you rack up by
flying with various companies, buying groceries at tescos etc etc, spend
than Savants.=20
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These may not be sperical distances around the earth, but could =
possibly be
the shortest
Is it just me, or is everyone WAY over thinking this thing?
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These may not be
relax,
you're at an UK travel agent... they are the cost of flights to those
cities in 'air mile' vouchers..you know, those things you rack up by
flying with various companies, buying groceries at tescos etc etc, spend
£xxx and get a voucher for so many miles of airspacenormally
Strewth Guys and Gals,
Get A Life, and Encarta World Atlas, and spend your lunchtime playing with some great
circles.
Then assume that, as this is a newspaper question, Marilyn isnt going to come up with
an answer that says "300 metres north of the intersection of route xx and route yy,
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David Booth
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Merseyside Information Service
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You could use your handy pocket GPS receiver to determine where both you and
the sign are!
Richard Burkmar
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meta data :)
Andrew Young
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At 09:15 AM 4/24/01 -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
>Say you come upon a sign that says the follow
ustralia
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> Here's an interesting mapping pr
I'm new to MapInfo (and anything related to GIS) so this question is possibly
not valid, but how would the topological features be taken into account when
measuring the distances given in this puzzle. What if the sign was in on a
mountain somewhere?
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> Hello Bill et al,
>
> Having a good world map product at my disposal, I tried true radii a
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>Say you come upon a sign that says the following:
> Paris 4658 miles
>
> Johannesburg 9092 miles
>How would you determine where the sign is located?
...
>But I'm surprised that with all the GIS mapping power held by this grou
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> > ... As the problem is phrased, there is no fast, simple
> procedure to get a practicably accurate answer.
>
> You ma
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> > Greetings List,
> >
> > It's really nice to
Bill Huber wrote:
> ... As the problem is phrased, there is no fast, simple procedure to get a
>practicably accurate answer.
You may have put your finger on a clue here. I bet Jacques' observation
about units was also a hint. Hendry Flavio is on target too. Stanley Ng
also gets a nod for thinkin
May I try to answer. The sign is "in front of you on the monitor"
Stanley NG
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> Greetings List,
>
> It's really nice to have this kind of diversion from time to time.
>
> As I usually work with kilometers I would ignore such riddles. But then
> the num
Greetings List,
It's really nice to have this kind of diversion from time to time.
As I usually work with kilometers I would ignore such riddles. But then
the numbers caught my attention. The circumference of the earth is about
40,000 km, so (some calculator punching) about 25,000 mile. The citi
Hi all
there are a few things that can be said up-front:
- it must be in the nothern hemisphere, around the same northing as Paris/Moscow/Tel
Aviv
- it must be West of Europe and East of China
- therefore it's in the center of the world (the US) ;-) ... the only ones left using
miles ... ;-)
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At 03:27 PM 4/23/01 -0400, KH wrote:
>If you had the proper projection on a flat map, you could do it with radii.
>You would need the azimuthal equidistant projection. This projection
>horribly distorts the shapes & sizes of the land masses, but the straight
>line distances are true.
Nope. Only
On a satellite?
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That is far to simple, it's so easy!
I've been there many times.
Answer = T
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That is far to simple, it's so easy!
I've been there many times.
Answer = Totally and completely lost!
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> Here's an interesting mapping problem that was in this Sunday's
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> Say you come upon a sign that says the following:
> Paris
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Bill,
Perhaps the easiest way would be to map using circles and a world map.
Find the map scale,
use a compass, and draw circles of the radius in miles indicated on the
map. Do that for
all the cities, and you'll figur
atson
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Here's an interesting mapping problem that was in this Sunday's
"Ask Marilyn" (newspaper) column.
Here's an interesting mapping problem that was in this Sunday's
"Ask Marilyn" (newspaper) column.
Say you come upon a sign that says the following:
Paris4658 miles
Moscow 5438 miles
Tel Aviv 6681 miles
Hong Kong7878 miles
Sydney 8746 miles
Johannesburg 9092 miles
How
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