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Location Center of Responses thus Far
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2001 Jul 23, 3:23 PM
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2001 Jul 23, 3:23 PM
The following people have replied so far to my request for location: NAME LAT LON ================================ Allen Dan 47.482 121.798 Arrouye Yves 37.892 122.997 Emerson Rick 40.245 75.252 Gilbert Greg -35.167 -138.75 Hogan Dan 33.147 117.958 Huxtable* George 51.6 1.28 Murdoch* Bill 36.548 82.562 Ouvry Philip 42.43 -3.15 Sher* Russell -33.933 -18.367 Simmonds John -37.353 -143.635 Smith Peter 42.217 71.283 Talge Gordon 34.052 117.253 Taylor* Chuck 47.9 122.3 Tripp Steven 37.5 -140 * = Position approximated by looking up city in Encarta World Atlas (North and West are positive, South and East are negative) Using these 14 data points, the average latitude is 24.6 North, and the average longitude is 27.7 West, a spot 487 nautical miles north of Mindelo, Cape Verde islands in the central Atlantic ocean. This is quite a distance from the nearest restaurant. The nearest spot on a continent is Nouakchott, Mauritania, 761 nmi SE. It is 1177 nautical miles NE to Casablanca in Morocco. Hmmmm... Daniel K. Allen danallen@nwlink.com http://www.nwlink.com/~danallen/ Measure | Analyze | Communicate
