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| :] is a sockpuppet of banned LTA ]. The account was and used to make the posting above in order to demean me. The sock account has now been from editing for block evasion and continuing his/her three-year practice of wikistalking literally dozens of WP editors with whom he/she has disagreed about anything. ] (]) 18:13, 30 October 2010 (UTC) | :] is a sockpuppet of banned LTA ]. The account was and used to make the posting above in order to demean me. The sock account has now been from editing for block evasion and continuing his/her three-year practice of wikistalking literally dozens of WP editors with whom he/she has disagreed about anything. ] (]) 18:13, 30 October 2010 (UTC) | ||
| Interesting that Centpacrr would so readily assume the title of windbag and engage in such flights of fancy to dismiss your edits, but I wasn't referring to him. I was referring to edits you've made to transportation articles where you pared the writing down to the essentials and expressed things in a more professional style. I appreciate it. Keep up the good work. ] | Interesting that Centpacrr would so readily assume the title of windbag and engage in such flights of fancy to dismiss your edits, but I wasn't referring to him. I was referring to edits you've made to transportation articles where you pared the writing down to the essentials and expressed things in a more professional style. I appreciate it. Keep up the good work. ] <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 14:53, 31 October 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> | ||
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September 2010
Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page McCarran International Airport do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Misplaced Pages is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Misplaced Pages uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. HkCaGu (talk) 01:09, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Draft: lat-lon
If you had asked NGS for the location of the Empire State Building in Manhattan a few decades ago they would have told you
- Latitude 40 deg 44 min 53.984 sec North Longitude 73 deg 59 min 09.842 sec West
Whereas now they would tell you
- Lat 40-44-54.36051 N Lon 73-59-08.35715 W
If you asked about the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, decades ago they would have said
- Lat 37-47-42.82630 N Lon 122-24-06.07934 W
But now they would say
- Lat 37-47-42.57543 N Lon 122-24-09.97865 W
So what's going on? Has either building moved that much? Was the earlier position wrong? Or how about the tall water tank a few hundred meters north of the Hilo airport, on the Big Island of Hawaii, which used to be
- Lat 19-43-54.526 N Lon 155-03-26.463 W
but is now
- Lat 19-43-43.61544 N Lon 155-03-16.47749 W
Has it moved 300 meters to the southeast since, say, 1980? Or was the old lat-lon that wrong?
Probably neither; the problem is that "latitude" and "longitude" aren't as absolute as we thought, even if all the measurements are as perfect as they can possibly be.
(By the way: the UTM Northing for the Empire State Building was 4511102.757 meters in the old system; in the new it's 4511326.208. And that's the last you'll read about UTM in this article.)Tim Zukas (talk) 21:15, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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Overland Route
You have now three times removed material from this article without explanation that appears in the original sources. If you find something that you dispute, please discuss it first in the page's talk section. Centpacrr (talk) 19:59, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Editing
You're an excellent copy editor. Don't be deterred by egotistical windbags. :) EarlofEdits (talk) 16:31, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
- EarlofEdits is a sockpuppet of banned LTA Techwriter2B. The account was created today and used to make the posting above in order to demean me. The sock account has now been blocked from editing for block evasion and continuing his/her three-year practice of wikistalking literally dozens of WP editors with whom he/she has disagreed about anything. Centpacrr (talk) 18:13, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Interesting that Centpacrr would so readily assume the title of windbag and engage in such flights of fancy to dismiss your edits, but I wasn't referring to him. I was referring to edits you've made to transportation articles where you pared the writing down to the essentials and expressed things in a more professional style. I appreciate it. Keep up the good work. EarlofEdits —Preceding unsigned comment added by EarlofEditing (talk • contribs) 14:53, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
- http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=ku3602%7CNGS data for ESB
- http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=ht3117%7CNGS data for Transamerica
- http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=tu2198%7CNGS data for water tank