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] Date Posted: 21:24:36 12/07/04 Tue Sorry to keep coming back to this, but I had a thought about the map of the proposed federation on the Commonwealth History page. I notice that using the typical Atlantic-centred map with Europe and Africa in the centre the Americas on the left and Australia on the far right, there seems to be a wide gap in the proposed federation between the UK and Canada on the left and Australia and New Zealand on the right, with a big nothing in the middle. However, a Pacific-centred map gives the impression of the Federation being closer together. Canada is in the centre with Australia and New Zealand immediately on the left and the UK immediately on the right. This gives more of a 'togetherness' impression rather than the other way which looks too spread out and disconnected. I am not advocating this just because it puts my country in the centre! Just a thought. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:51:53 12/07/04 Tue There is no way out of this dilemma. Any map will look wrong to someone. The map on my wall splits the world down the Atlantic, giving Australia + New Zealand bottom middle, Canada top right and the UK top left. I like it, of course. Perhaps the site could have one Greenwich-centred map for the UK (Split down the Pacific), one Pacific-centred map for Australia and New Zealand (split down the Atlantic) and one Americas-centred map for Canada (split somewhere through Asia, I guess? I'm not familiar with this one). [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Sounds like it's best left as it is with the Greenwich Meridian in the centre | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 01:21:14 12/08/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: Only in the same sense that London would make the best FC capital... | |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 01:44:28 12/08/04 Wed ... it's just the line of least resistance, because it involves making the least changes. I have no problem with the centre of the map moving to some other meridien, and I'm from the only Dominion which shares a longitude (well, almost) with the British Isles! We must never let lack of imagination interfere with this project, Jim. London is the old capital, the British Isles are the Motherland, England and Scotland and Wales and Ireland are all embedded so deep in our cultural consciousness, and, in my colony at least, we were hardly able to evaluate ourselves at all except by comparing and contrasting ourselves with the Old Country... but none of this is a reason just to keep things as they have always been. More importantly, however much sense it might make to keep certain aspects of the Old Order, such as London as a capital, it is not necessarily the way forward, since people in the former dominions will baulk at the thought however logic it is. Shove the centre of your map at 45 degrees West and good luck to you. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: Ed, you are South African, aren't you? | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 03:57:12 12/08/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Originally... been in Blighty for years and years, though | |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 12:32:34 12/08/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:05:00 12/07/04 Tue No, we can't resort to American world maps. We all know where the Greenwich meridian is, and hence, the centre of the world :-) Honestly, they'll be re-numbering the longitudinal lines next… [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Let's compromise... | |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:32:06 12/07/04 Tue ...and put the Middle East in the centre of the map. Say, Damascus, for no other reason than that I've always liked it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |