The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 7 days agoTechnically correctlemmy.worldimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1380arrow-down110
arrow-up1370arrow-down1imageTechnically correctlemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareboonhet@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·7 days 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-up2·7 days agoJust did that and Semisopochnoi Island still came out as the easternmost point.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 days 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.