<div dir="ltr">Interesting too to get distances for a question I have often asked folks:<br><br>Santiago, Chile is on the west coast of South America. Which US city has the closest value of longitude? often have to remind that longitudes are the north/south meridians / lines on the globe.<div><ol><li>Los Angeles</li><li>Houston</li><li>Miami</li><li>New York<br></li></ol><div>Also, rank order the above cities in closeness to Santiago, Chile.</div><div><br></div><div>Think of the answer before scrolling down.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>My experience is > 80% misestimate how far east South America is in relation to North America and miss the answer of New York. <a href="https://www.greatcirclemap.com/roadmap?routes=%20SCL-LAX%2C%20SCL-MIA%2C%20SCL-JFK%2C%20SCL-IAH">2D Map</a><br><br></div><div>And now it's easy to ask to rank the distances: <a href="https://www.greatcirclemap.com/globe?routes=%20SCL-LAX%2C%20SCL-MIA%2C%20SCL-JFK%2C%20SCL-IAH">Globe View</a></div><div><ol><li>MIA
(folks who travel to South America easily get this right)</li><li>IAH </li><li>JFK</li><li>LAX</li></ol><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" target="_blank">Stephen.Guerin@Simtable.com</a><div>CEO, Simtable <a href="http://www.simtable.com/" target="_blank">http://www.simtable.com</a><br><div>1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505<div><div>office: (505)995-0206 <span style="font-size:12.8px">mobile: (505)577-5828</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">twitter: @simtable</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://zoom.com/j/5055775828" target="_blank">z</a><a href="http://oom.simtable.com" target="_blank">oom.simtable.com</a></span></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 3:22 PM Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That gives a good view, Stephen. Hawaii is farther south than I thought. Thanks.<br><br><div>---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 19, 2021, 3:19 PM Stephen Guerin <<a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" target="_blank">stephen.guerin@simtable.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I was going to post this similar site but Ed beat me with his :-) This one also has a globe view...<br><br><a href="https://www.greatcirclemap.com/globe?routes=CLT-HNL" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.greatcirclemap.com/globe?routes=CLT-HNL</a><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen.Guerin@Simtable.com</a><div>CEO, Simtable <a href="http://www.simtable.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.simtable.com</a><br><div>1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505<div><div>office: (505)995-0206 <span style="font-size:12.8px">mobile: (505)577-5828</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">twitter: @simtable</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://zoom.com/j/5055775828" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">z</a><a href="http://oom.simtable.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">oom.simtable.com</a></span></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 2:03 PM Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thanks, Ed. That's useful.<br><br><div>---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 19, 2021, 1:54 PM Edward Angel <<a href="mailto:angel@cs.unm.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">angel@cs.unm.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Close: <a href="https://www.airmilescalculator.com/distance/clt-to-hnl/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.airmilescalculator.com/distance/clt-to-hnl/</a><br><div>
<span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div>_______________________</div><div><br>Ed Angel<br><br></div><div>Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)<br>Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico<br><br>1017 Sierra Pinon</div><div>Santa Fe, NM 87501<br>505-984-0136 (home)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="mailto:angel@cs.unm.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">angel@cs.unm.edu</a></div><div>505-453-4944 (cell) <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel</a><br></div></span></span>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 19, 2021, at 1:48 PM, Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="auto">Not to change the subject but...<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A large airliner recently, 15 minutes ago, flew over Santa Fe headed west. My Flight Radar app tells me that it's a Boeing 777 going from Charlotte to Honolulu at an altitude of 38000 feet. I wouldn't have thought that Santa Fe was on a great Circle route between those two cities. But maybe it is.<br><br><div dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div></div>
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