The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 month agoTechnically correctlemmy.worldimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1389arrow-down110
arrow-up1379arrow-down1imageTechnically correctlemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareboonhet@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 month agoSo this is only technically true. If we chose another place for the zero meridian, it wouldn’t be the case. Reasonably you’d plot the entire US on a map and find the easternmost point.
minus-squaresik0fewl@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoJust did that and Semisopochnoi Island still came out as the easternmost point.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoYeah, OP’s instructions were vague. I think they mean to set the origin of the coordinate system as the centroid of all US territory.
So this is only technically true.
If we chose another place for the zero meridian, it wouldn’t be the case. Reasonably you’d plot the entire US on a map and find the easternmost point.
Just did that and Semisopochnoi Island still came out as the easternmost point.
Yeah, OP’s instructions were vague. I think they mean to set the origin of the coordinate system as the centroid of all US territory.