[Talk-us] Locations for State of the Map US 2014

Nathan Mills nathan at nwacg.net
Fri Nov 15 23:45:20 UTC 2013


Sorry, the center of the universe is in Tulsa on the pedestrian bridge across the railroad tracks downtown. 

Also, Postgres tells me that the geographic center of the lower 48 is at 39.5359,-99.1558 (ish)

Yours in precision,
-Nathan

Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:
>Just to remind everyone, we have a sign in the Fremont neighborhood of
>Seattle that claims it is the Center of the Universe.
>
>
>On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
>wrote:
>
>> On Friday, November 15, 2013, wrote:
>>
>>>  Seeing as how the “official” location of the lower 48’s centroid is
>in
>>> north-central Kansas, I’d have to dispute your claim that Tulsa is
>the
>>> closest major metro area. Looks to me that Lincoln, Nebraska would
>be the
>>> closest. 😊 There’s also Wichita, Omaha, Topeka, and Kansas City.
>>>
>>
>> Just going by the claims of some random KDOT sign along US 169
>nearish
>> Caney, stating it's at the geographic center of the lower 48th.
>>
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