I wrote one of these but it only works for residents of san marino
Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing
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#22Cool! One of the countries in 1800 renders as “M?ori” for me, so it looks like you have some kind of character encoding issues (or there’s some language I don’t know about where ? is a letter). Feature request: is there a way to get a blurb about one’s current country? Lots of people on this site will get “Viceroyalty of New Spain” (the pre-independence name of Mexico, which included the entire current American South…
I think this error may be in the historical-basemaps data, because it is also present on https://historicborders.app/year/1800?lng=169.5234304&lat=-4...
It's more than character encoding. If you click on it, the description of New Zealand is "a quintuple star system some 1,200 light-years from the Sun"
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#23Very neat! I was confused as to how the possible paths would lead me to France, or if I slightly moved my phone, Brazil. Then I remembered French Guiana - it might be worth adding awareness of things like overseas departments rather than just the parent country.
Also, it reminds me of this HN conversation I found fascinating a few years back: Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16965650
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#24Very neat! I was confused as to how the possible paths would lead me to France, or if I slightly moved my phone, Brazil. Then I remembered French Guiana - it might be worth adding awareness of things like overseas departments rather than just the parent country. Also, it reminds me of this HN conversation I found fascinating a few years back: Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land - htt…
> it might be worth adding awareness of things like overseas departments rather than just the parent country.
I'd guess showing the coordinates of the hit (and make it a link to maps) would be beneficial.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
That makes sense, but I think constant latitude, in particular, is a special case that people often have in mind.
The other methods are about defining different meanings of what "going around" actually is while constant latitude is a special case of many such methods, e.g. great circle, not a new definition of what going that way means.
I'm not sure what you mean, but a circle of constant latitude is definitely not a great circle (except on the equator).
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#26I wrote one of these but it only works for residents of san marino
Soon available for people in the Vatican as well?
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#27Maybe you can do this with other things too. For example cities, buildings (clubs, shops, etc) or even people.
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#28Very neat! I was confused as to how the possible paths would lead me to France, or if I slightly moved my phone, Brazil. Then I remembered French Guiana - it might be worth adding awareness of things like overseas departments rather than just the parent country. Also, it reminds me of this HN conversation I found fascinating a few years back: Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land - htt…
My aunt and uncle were disembarked from a cruise ship because they were ill (covid) and they were taken to hospital. They phoned my mum to tell her of the situation while still disoriented and said they were in Spain.
The Canary Islands are Spanish, but saying Spain in this situation wasn’t helpful when my mum was trying to book flights. Caused some mild confusion for a while.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other methods are about defining different meanings of what "going around" actually is while constant latitude is a special case of many such methods, e.g. great circle, not a new definition of what going that way means.
I'm not sure what you mean, but a circle of constant latitude is definitely not a great circle (except on the equator).
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other methods are about defining different meanings of what "going around" actually is while constant latitude is a special case of many such methods, e.g. great circle, not a new definition of what going that way means.
I'm not sure what you mean, but a circle of constant latitude is definitely not a great circle (except on the equator).
You're 100% right, I conflated great circle and small circle there.