FLIGHT RADAR

[Moodybluebird]

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Is it because people are familiar with looking at a Mercator map of the world and not realising that a straight line on it between two points is nowhere near the shortest distance involved?

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Almost certainly, especially if they're not regular fliers. It's quite common to fly over Nova Scotia or even further north when flying from London to Miami for instance.

Not only is the Flight Radar app fun, it's a great educational tool as well.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Almost certainly, especially if they're not regular fliers. It's quite common to fly over Nova Scotia or even further north when flying from London to Miami for instance.

Not only is the Flight Radar app fun, it's a great educational tool as well.

It's my very last day as a cartographer as I'm retiring at 4pm today. Glad to be of service :-)

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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It's my very last day as a cartographer as I'm retiring at 4pm today. Glad to be of service :-)

Good luck in your retirement!

[WJ99mobile]

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Almost certainly, especially if they're not regular fliers. It's quite common to fly over Nova Scotia or even further north when flying from London to Miami for instance.

Not only is the Flight Radar app fun, it's a great educational tool as well.

Isn't that what Newfoundland is famous for, being the pitstop for the Americas?

[WJ99mobile]

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There are also ones for shipping such as MarineTraffic and Marine Radar.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais...ry:20.3/zoom:7

Used it quite often,

Sat with my father yesterday at the Spinny in Sully watching a cargo ship pass

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Good luck in your retirement!

:thumbup:

[The Hooded Claw]

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Does it track footballs kicked in to the sky at Cardiff City Stadium?

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Is it because people are familiar with looking at a Mercator map of the world and not realising that a straight line on it between two points is nowhere near the shortest distance involved?

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I've always found this to be so counter intuitive. I have a globe in front of me , and with a piece of string I can see that the shortest path is exactly as the map you posted shows. Yet it still seems strange that Mexico City is a long way south of Paris, yet in order to get there you start off going north to cornwall. I suppose if you reoriented paris to be th new "north pole" then it might make more sense

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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I've always found this to be so counter intuitive. I have a globe in front of me , and with a piece of string I can see that the shortest path is exactly as the map you posted shows. Yet it still seems strange that Mexico City is a long way south of Paris, yet in order to get there you start off going north to cornwall. I suppose if you reoriented paris to be th new "north pole" then it might make more sense

All map projections (and there are many) are distortions. Try and imagine representing a football as a flat two-dimensional object.
Not easy, is it? The Mercator projection, named after a Flemish cartographer, effectively shows the globe as a flattened out cylinder with the most northern and southern regions cropped because the further away from the equator the more stretching is involved - and the north and south poles, mere points on the globe, would be shown as wide as the equator. The projection is useful in several ways, including the north/up v south/down concepts but, in reality, there is no up and down apart from in our imagination. And as for north being at the top of maps, it's merely convention and not universal - and the word 'orientation' came from the days when The Holy Land/The East was at the top of maps and when North was effectively shown on the left-hand side. Many things in mapping are human constructs and but it's the maths that count.

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All map projections (and there are many) are distortions. Try and imagine representing a football as a flat two-dimensional object.
Not easy, is it? The Mercator projection, named after a Flemish cartographer, effectively shows the globe as a flattened out cylinder with the most northern and southern regions cropped because the further away from the equator the more stretching is involved - and the north and south poles, mere points on the globe, would be shown as wide as the equator. The projection is useful in several ways, including the north/up v south/down concepts but, in reality, there is no up and down apart from in our imagination. And as for north being at the top of maps, it's merely convention and not universal - and the word 'orientation' came from the days when The Holy Land/The East was at the top of maps and when North was effectively shown on the left-hand side. Many things in mapping are human constructs and but it's the maths that count.

Picturing you still sat in the office typing this :hehe: GO HOME TBG, your work is done

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Picturing you still sat in the office typing this :hehe: GO HOME TBG, your work is done

I've been on leave today (and for the last 9 weeks) :-)

[splott parker]

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I've been on leave today (and for the last 9 weeks) :-)

And you’re retiring despite that holiday entitlement :hehe:

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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And you’re retiring despite that holiday entitlement :hehe:

Two years accrued, old fruit.

[splott parker]

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Two years accrued, old fruit.

Extremely tactical and clever TBG, happy & long retirement :thumbup:

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Extremely tactical and clever TBG, happy & long retirement :thumbup:

Thanks but enough of me already! :-)