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Where is London's most central sheep?

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Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by 369548684892826 »

wheybags wrote: post #9
steerpike wrote: post #3

When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in…

My metric for when you've left the city is "have I passed a field of potatoes"

This probably works best in Idaho

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by walrus01 »

369548684892826 wrote: post #21
wheybags wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My metric for when you've left the city is "have I passed a field of potatoes"

This probably works best in Idaho

In the broadest possible sense, Idaho can be divided into "potato" and "non-potato" Idaho. For instance if you drive US95 through here (the creatively named Idaho County, Idaho) it's almost entirely wheat farms, and what isn't a wheat farm is either forest, wilderness or cattle ranch. The potato part doesn't really start until you get down into the whole valley/flat land area occupied by Meridian, Boise, Nampa, etc.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grangeville,+ID+83530,+USA...

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by vanderZwan »

369548684892826 wrote: post #21
wheybags wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My metric for when you've left the city is "have I passed a field of potatoes"

This probably works best in Idaho

POTATO LAND! POTATO LAND!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWtLw83_jE0&t=426s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwF3e78j7pw (official African mirror)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Jff85kMeU (official Asian mirror)

(PS: curious how the video resolution gets lower with each channel)

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by gadders »

walrus01 wrote: post #8

Looking at the satellite view of some grassy rooftops in the city of London (the square mile), it seems to me that a sufficiently motivated wealthy person could keep several sheep in a more central location. Some of those roofs look like they have more habitat space than the most central sheep lives in.

A friend of mine at a city brokers with a rooftop garden told me that one of the traders released some rabbits there.

You could sit on the trading floor and look up and see them stretched out on the glass atrium roof sunbathing.

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by Quarrel »

Pinus wrote: post #15
gadders wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Charing Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross#:~:text=Since%20... .

Some years ago, I was looking for London hotels on some booking site, and noticed that they were listed as being so-and-so many km (with .1 or even .01 precision) from London, which seemed amusing given that they were all in London. So I fired up QGIS and drew a circle (in some suitable projection!) with the indicated radius around each hotel, and found that they intersected on Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square.

As the parent indicated, this stuff is surprisingly standardised in London.

Distance is measured from Charing Cross.

The Cross is near Nelson's Column, but I would be surprised if the column was actually the central point.

As others have pointed out, this leads to some weirdness, as lots assume that the City (old London & older Roman London) would be the obvious place to measure things from.

Re: Where is London's most central sheep?

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Post by Quarrel »

gadders wrote: post #26
walrus01 wrote: post #8

Looking at the satellite view of some grassy rooftops in the city of London (the square mile), it seems to me that a sufficiently motivated wealthy person could keep several sheep in a more central location. Some of those roofs look like they have more habitat space than the most central sheep lives in.

A friend of mine at a city brokers with a rooftop garden told me that one of the traders released some rabbits there. You could sit on the trading floor and look up and see them stretched out on the glass atrium roof sunbathing.

Finding the most central rabbit would be quite the task!
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