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Re: Ambiguous names

From snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)
Newsgroups alt.usage.english
Subject Re: Ambiguous names
Date 2026-03-15 22:40 +0000
Organization Sn!peCo World Wide Wading Birds
Message-ID <1rs1awn.px4yarx84n0eN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> (permalink)
References (5 earlier) <1rs0f4s.wrn4wkngpaxfN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <n1nr84Fhll6U1@mid.individual.net> <1rs0t3y.glen6ho5d3N%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <1rs18o3.qy6wvi1imcslfN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <1rs1d0o.1lvsxboire5e2N%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl>

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J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:

> Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Indeed. (sorry)
> > > To rub it in, even the British OS maps
> > > use a transverse Mercator projection these days.
> > > Your 'National Grid' is based on it.
> > > 
> > > And your once pround Greenwich meridian (then centreline of the world)
> > > is off nowaays by about 100 meter.
> > > Fortunately for for Britons their carnavs won't tell them that, [1]
> > > 
> > > Jan
> > > 
> > > [1] But Google shows no mercy.
> > > Asking for 51.2840N 0.0000E 
> > > will land you in the green, in the park,
> > > well East of the observatory.
> > >
> > 
> > If 0.0000E longitude has moved WRT the real world I assume that 
> > the primary longitude reference is now elsewhere; where is it?
> >
> 
> It is on Null Island,
> (sorry, no more time just now)
> 
> Jan
> (mentioned recently otherthread)
>

When you have time:  Who specified the location of "Null Island"?

-- 
^Ï^.          Sn!pe, bird-brain.          My pet rock Gordon just is.

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