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 Ricotta
    
Nobler Donor
Location: Houston, TX
Gender: Male
De arimasu~
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<Reply # 80 on 1/26/2005 2:17 AM >
|  | | | Looks good, but Alaska and Canada are way too big.
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Avatar-X
   
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| |  | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 81 on 1/26/2005 2:19 AM >
| | | | Posted by Damien Nightbane
Looks good, but Alaska and Canada are way too big.
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The map is to scale.
-av
huskies - such fluff. |
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el nerdo
   
Chief UER Lackey
Gender: Male
What are you, from the Department of Know'm Sayin's? You takin' a Know'm census?
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 82 on 1/26/2005 2:21 AM >
| | | | Posted by Damien Nightbane
Looks good, but Alaska and Canada are way too big.
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lol.... that made me laugh.
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 83 on 1/26/2005 2:22 AM >
|  | | | I think that BC should be renamed to Wraithsland... or maybe Jesterland...
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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Fubster
Location: Tampa Bay Area, Florida
Gender: Male
Though highly intelligent, guide dogs cannot interpret street signs.
| |  | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 84 on 1/26/2005 2:25 AM >
| | | | I think that the map is distorted because the lines of lattitude get father apart as you go farther from the equator to compensate for the roundness of Earth.
Sometimes, you need to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who it is you're talking to. Then, on your way out, slam the door. |
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Servo
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<Reply # 85 on 1/26/2005 2:27 AM >
| | | | No, Damien's right. This is the projection the current map is using:
http://www.colorad...j/gif/mercator.gif
The Mercator projection has straight meridians and parallels that intersect at right angles. Scale is true at the equator or at two standard parallels equidistant from the equator. The projection is often used for marine navigation because all straight lines on the map are lines of constant azimuth.
For comparison, here's one that allows sizes to be more closely compared:
http://www.colorad...oj/gif/polycon.gif
The polyconic projection was used for most of the earlier USGS topographic quadrangles. The projection is based on an infinite number of cones tangent to an infinite number of parallels. The central meridian is straight. Other meridians are complex curves. The parallels are non-concentric circles. Scale is true along each parallel and along the central meridian.
Now, I'm just putting this here for your edification -- I don't really care if the map is distorted as long as it works.
(source for the info above from this page)
[last edit 1/26/2005 2:33 AM by Servo - edited 3 times]
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el nerdo
Chief UER Lackey
Gender: Male
What are you, from the Department of Know'm Sayin's? You takin' a Know'm census?
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 86 on 1/26/2005 2:36 AM >
| | | | There are about 15 different "projections" for the earth. I have a National Geographic somewhere that shows them all.
Honestly, it doesn't matter HOW Av does this; someone's going to have a complaint.
The map is accurate. The locations are good enough.
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Caveman6666
Location: NY
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 87 on 1/26/2005 2:44 AM >
| | | | Posted by HauntedPA
I have to agree, but everywhere almost on the Atlantic Seaboard has a ton of stuff. I mean where would you put NY, PA and NJ then?
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Gotta be Northeast. Only other option is Mid-Atlantic with the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, etc. A whole another region.
Yet another unoriginal generic UE website. GODDAM! |
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White Rabbit
Women's Advocate
Location: Missouri
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 88 on 1/26/2005 3:19 AM >
| | | | Looks awesome. I think the new feature fucking rocks, Av. Thanks for doing it.
Underground Ozarks http://www.undergroundozarks.com
Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas |
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 89 on 1/26/2005 3:34 AM >
| | | | Yes, the new map is in place. Give me some time to make one for the Infiltration interface as well..
-av
huskies - such fluff. |
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HauntedPA
Location: Anywhere and Everywhere
Gender: Female
What do you mean the rum is gone?!
| | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 90 on 1/26/2005 3:34 AM >
| | | | Posted by White Rabbit
Looks awesome. I think the new feature fucking rocks, Av. Thanks for doing it.
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I 2nd this. Awesome work man.
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Shane
Moderator
Location: Bronx, NY
Gender: Male
| |  |  | | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 91 on 1/26/2005 3:36 AM >
| | | | Nice map, I like the new feature, but am I the only who's eyes are burned by the color of the ocean? Couldn't we make it a nice neutral grey like the rest of the page, or at least a less bright shade of blue?
"Because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Invention. The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better." -Chuck Palahniuk |
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SPEK Photo
Location: Where you were not.
"Chere cachère!"
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 92 on 1/26/2005 4:36 AM >
| | | | Spliting the USA board: A Canadian Idea. 
Pour fins d'archives.
WWW.EXPLORATIONURBAINE.CA |
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Asylunt
Location: MPLS
Gender: Male
The Friendly Beer!
| | | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 93 on 1/26/2005 4:54 AM >
| | | | This works for me. I'm very happy to see the States finally split, although I do believe it was a United States idea. Av's work with the map and the quick turn around him updating this has encouraged me to finally send the tattered Canadian $5 bill I have sitting around from my last trip to Eh?Land, to Av.
Asylunt
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain |
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
Location: Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
| | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 94 on 1/26/2005 4:57 AM >
| | | | spek, cetait une idee QUEBECOISE lol
Montreal Expos 1969-2004 Forever Proud Lets Keep The Dream Alive |
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SPEK Photo
Location: Where you were not.
"Chere cachère!"
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 95 on 1/26/2005 5:01 AM >
| | | | Posted by nostra-YOUPPI!
spek, cetait une idee QUEBECOISE lol
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Canadian just in case some people wouldn't not know where Québec is.
Pour fins d'archives.
WWW.EXPLORATIONURBAINE.CA |
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nostra-YOUPPI!
Umpire
Location: Shahre:'on Kaybec
Bonsoir et cest partie
| | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 96 on 1/26/2005 5:02 AM >
| | | | i know i was just jokin around
Montreal Expos 1969-2004 Forever Proud Lets Keep The Dream Alive |
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barraclou
Bus route 2 rider
Gender: Male
| | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 97 on 1/26/2005 5:14 AM >
| | | | Posted by Asylunt
[...] this has encouraged me to finally send the tattered Canadian $5 bill I have sitting around [...]
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If you don't want it, I will get you rid of all your unwanted cash for free. I am taking all USD, Cdn $ (aka Monopoly cash), Euro, Pesos, rubles and other currency...
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Mr. Motts
Noble Donor
Location: Long Island and Brooklyn NY
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 98 on 1/26/2005 5:16 AM >
| | | | Who cares about accuracy, we all (should) know what North America looks like.
Not trying to key down canada or anything, but perhaps a more user friendly map would be beneficial for easy navigation. Since all the upper regions are hugely disproportional to the lower ones, a little perspective might work better...
just a suggestion.
Save the planet... kill yourself.
http://www.opacity.us/ - Abandoned Photography |
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SPEK Photo
Location: Where you were not.
"Chere cachère!"
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 99 on 1/26/2005 5:34 AM >
| | | | Posted by Mr. Motts
Who cares about accuracy, we all (should) know what North America looks like.
Since all the upper regions are hugely disproportional to the lower ones,
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It's a Canadian Idea!
[last edit 1/26/2005 11:26 PM by SPEK Photo - edited 1 times]
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