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7 Sep 2024 17:16:52 EDT (-0400)
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From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 15 Jun 2008 04:23:28
Message: <4854d180$1@news.povray.org>
>> I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
>> from London and I live there ;)

> Seconded, 100+ from Amsterdam. I was closest for Riga in Latvia about 45 
> kilometers. Guess where I am going on monday ;)

Here's a point worth noting...

This appears to be some kind of cylindrical projection, and such 
projections distort distances at extreme lattitudes. So it's probably 
"harder" to accurately hit a place that's near the equator, because it's 
scaled smaller.

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