On 4/19/11 4:07 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
That is why it was so funny that so many people could not find it. It is by far the largest thing on the map.
not on a world map which is centered at the prime meridian. The Pacific is split into two halves and looks smaller.
There's also a whole lot of other cartographic issues... Greenland on a Mercator projection is the notorious one.
To keep this moderately time-nuts related, that's actually how I got started on precision timing.. I was looking at generating map projections, which got me into surveying and cadastral stuff, which got me into precision GPS measurements.
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