Silver1omo
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If I could.............................. build my home here, yes I would.................................. do it !
Pyrénées mountains, France, less than 20km from Spain. In fact these mountains are separating France from Spain.
/ September 22, 12:30 / with my simple Canon and DxO /
Being from Australia, and considerate to my new northern friends, this one I put through a hemisphere compensation filter...
What I expect would bother me about being in the Southern Hemisphere, would be how the Sun would rise on the right and set on the left, instead of the correct way.
I do like your maps, though:
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Other than that, the most disorienting sunrise for me occurred on a flight from Chicago to Hong Kong in 2001, over the North Pole in late December.
It rose due south.
The next thing that bothered me was that we were flying directly towards Siberia and China, and I hadn't realized the Russians had opened their airspace to commercial traffic yet.
I know the thread said just a few words, but I have to ask... Where did you get an atlas with everything the right way up, including the words...
Too bad the map's (still) a Mercator projection -- were it not, it'd be even more disorenting to Amurricans (and Europeans, too, for that matter).What I expect would bother me about being in the Southern Hemisphere, would be how the Sun would rise on the right and set on the left, instead of the correct way.
I do like your maps, though:
View attachment 87423
Other than that, the most disorienting sunrise for me occurred on a flight from Chicago to Hong Kong in 2001, over the North Pole in late December.
It rose due south.
The next thing that bothered me was that we were flying directly towards Siberia and China, and I hadn't realized the Russians had opened their airspace to commercial traffic yet.
Too bad the map's (still) a Mercator projection
What I expect would bother me about being in the Southern Hemisphere, would be how the Sun would rise on the right and set on the left, instead of the correct way.
I do like your maps, though:
View attachment 87423
Other than that, the most disorienting sunrise for me occurred on a flight from Chicago to Hong Kong in 2001, over the North Pole in late December.
It rose due south.
The next thing that bothered me was that we were flying directly towards Siberia and China, and I hadn't realized the Russians had opened their airspace to commercial traffic yet.
Whoa, there are some cool ones there I've never seen before!Which distorted view would you prefer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections#Table_of_projections