[OSM-talk] SOTM 2010 Girona, Spain!!

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On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
> wrote:

> >All of Spain is further north than Tennessee, the US state where I live.
> Tennessee is on about the same >latitude as Algeria.
>
> That's another example of the "anticlockwise axis tilt" of perceptions of
> places versus where they actually are.
>
> I've noticed that several places in the world are tilted anticlockwise
> compared to where one expects them to be.
>
> To me living in the UK, the natural way of thinking suggests that
> Edinburgh-London-Paris are on a N-S axis. They're not, it's actually
> NNW-SSE - tilted anticlockwise.
>
> Likewise I imagine Paris and New York, and London-Amsterdam-Berlin-Moscow,
> to be on W-E axes. Again they're not, it's approx WSW-ENE in all cases, so
> again the axis is tilted anticlockwise.
>
> Tennessee I'd have imagined, before I realised (some years ago) how much
> further south the USA is compared to where you think it is, as being about
> the same as southern France or northern Spain.
>
> The much wetter climate of the USA compared to most of Spain, and
> certainly north Africa, plays a role in this. My one visit to SE USA was
> changing planes at Atlanta, GA and it was very green - comparable to the
> UK or France.
>
> OK, so if we tilt Spain enough then Girona is in southern Spain.  Cool...
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