Re: Where are all the Monks?
by theorbtwo (Prior) on May 31, 2004 at 08:19 UTC
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http://multimap.com works quite nicely -- lat/long directly under the map. Most of europe, plus the US. (Sorry, those living elsewhere.)
Update: And Canada, and Australia... and an intersting "rest of the world" category, that may work, with some manual looking.
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Re: Where are all the Monks?
by tkil (Monk) on May 31, 2004 at 06:17 UTC
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Note that you can get close to your latitude and
longitude with simple mouse movement over a map
such as ...
Or you can do the geeky thing: buy or borrow a GPS
receiver, and let it tell you where you are. :)
ICBM address: lat +34 +32.44.24.5,
long -117.15.14.2,
elev +20m MSL (but GPS says +30m)
Updates
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Picky picky picky! Jepri correctly points
out that I need an elevation as well. Seeing as I
live about 50 meters from the ocean, and that GPS
units are notoriously flaky at elevation, I'll swag
it.
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Woops, seems I mistyped my location the first time.
(In case anyone was confused by my living in the
middle of the Mojave Desert...)
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Is it geekier to have looked up your address in the census survey database and used that instead? Cuz that's how I found my exact location.
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Is it geekier to have looked up your address in the
census database survey database and used that instead?
I was going to give you crap for this method,
because it requires you to trust the gub'mint...
...Then I remembered who runs those GPS satellites I'm
so fond of. D'oh.
I suspect the truly geeky method would be to use
celestial navigation techniques, at least for latitude.
Longitude ... harder nut to crack; most of the good
time sources are gov't controlled, and most ephemeris
tables are generated by the gov't as well. (Heck,
longitude has always been political anyway.)
Being a paranoid government-conspiracy nut is hard work!
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You need an elevation to go with that.
Sigh. Some people are never satisfied.
Anyway. I can eyeball it as about 20m, but my GPS
tells me 30m; I don't know whether it's a different
datum that causes it, or whether I'm being conservative
in my guesses. (The USGS topo that I found shows my place as being right on the 20ft contour, so...)
You did also help me realize that I mistyped my latitude.
Going back and correcting it now.
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Re: Where are all the Monks?
by pfaut (Priest) on May 31, 2004 at 14:34 UTC
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Note that I am located in Nebraska now - which is just sligtly more populated with Monks than China.
Nebraska may or may not have more PerlMonks than China but I'm sure it has more that can mention it on internet.
90% of every Perl application is already written. ⇒ | dragonchild |
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One thing I will say about central Nebraska. My broadband connection here is excellent. Having moved here from Dallas - I expected a "downgrade" in connectivity. In fact, my connection speeds are faster, more reliable, and cable modem congestion is non-existant.
Over the long term the MonkMap will surely indicate more highly populated and well connected areas on Earth.
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Plus you have a much better local football team to root for now. :)
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Re: Where are all the Monks?
by ambrus (Abbot) on May 31, 2004 at 14:59 UTC
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As I live in Europe, I had no problem with minuses,
but at first I swapped the two numbers (19,45) so
the dot appeared in Asia.
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And lines of longitude are all equally long
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Re: Where are all the Monks?
by tmiklas (Hermit) on Jun 01, 2004 at 19:47 UTC
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Hello Monks!
Another way of getting your coordinates (insufficient, but it's a good start)... If you know some HAM Radio operators... we use Grid Square Locators system. My current locator is JO81MB, while my home locator is JO91BS. The whole world is divided into squares, where the smallest one is about 4.5km x 4.5km :-) So it's a bit accurate :-) To read more about it please visit this site where you will find more info about the system itself.
Now when you know your locator, you go AMSAT GridSquare Conversion and that's all :-)
Vy 73 de SQ3TQM/6
Greetz, Tom.
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Re: Where are all the Monks?
by gawatkins (Monsignor) on Jun 01, 2004 at 10:04 UTC
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A big data file full of kudos to everyone who worked on that site!
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