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  6. The Official Bristol City v Nottingham Forest Match Day Thread

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    7 hours ago, havanatopia said:

    Blimey 2 on one thread and when i were a lad it were top of my career desires; i then found out the salary scale and decided the Ordnance Survey was not for me.

    It seems to work in reverse this close to the equator; the Philippines are small and perhaps that is why the place feels and is hugely over-crowded.

    I think the justification is the loss of Tomlin; perhaps Brownhill will be more creative than O'Neill. I applaud Lee's boldness. GON can always come on if it needs greater solidity.

    Oh god I wouldn't go near the OS Hav! I work in civil engineering. 

    Maps rule. 

  7. The Official Bristol City v Nottingham Forest Match Day Thread

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    21 minutes ago, spudski said:

    And yet they still teach that Columbus founded America...does my head in.

    Here's something else that bugs...Quote...

    Why every world map you're looking at is WRONG: Africa, China and India are distorted despite access to accurate satellite data

    • The distortion is the result of the Mercator map which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the world
    • It gives the right shapes of countries but at the cost of distorting sizes in favour of the wealthy lands to the north
    • For instance, north America looks larger, or at least as big, as Africa, and Greenland also looks of comparable size
    • In reality, you can fit north America into Africa and still have space for India, Argentina, Tunisia and some left over
    • Map suggests Scandinavian countries are larger than India, whereas in reality India is three times the size
    • The biggest challenge for cartographers is that it is impossible to portray reality of spherical world on a flat map

     

     

     

    Take a look at a map today, and you’re likely to see that North America is larger than Africa, Alaska is larger than Mexico and China is smaller than Greenland.

    But in reality China is four times bigger than Greenland, Africa is three times bigger than North America and Mexico is larger than Alaska.

    The distortion is the result of the Mercator projection, the map most commonly seen hanging in classrooms and in text books, which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the world.



     

    Well I say! I'm a cartographer by trade, never thought I'd see the day the Mercator projection is explained on a match day thread. 

    Also annoys me when people say 'upside down' maps or those with Asia in the middle are wrong! Bloody elitists 

    Anyway back to reality, u redzzzzzzzzzzz 1-0

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  10. The Official Fulham v Bristol City Match Day Thread

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    Brilliant. Have only read a few posts before the game as I was at the game myself but we so deserved that win. Why? Because our fans were bloody brialliant from start to finish despite a poor first half. Fulham deserved absolutely nothing with support like that, we moan about the atmosphere at AG but my god it's so much better than the 4-5 grounds I've been to this season. The criticism keeps us on our feet but still feel like we're so much better than the majority of teams. Such a good away day. Temperance was also brill before the game. Atmosphere is everything. 

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