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On 11/23/2004 6:51 PM, B1LLYW@aol.com wrote:
| In a message dated 11/23/2004 6:19:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
| dml@bleazard.net writes:
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|>Southeastern Utah, on the Arizona border. I
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| To be fair to everybody, that really is pretty far west. Bring it
eastward a
| few hundred miles. 1500 miles or so for the furthest person to drive .
It's a Catch-22. Unless you have a solid commitment from everyone, you
don't know where 1500 miles puts things. And without having a location,
you can't get people to commit.
1500 miles from the East coast puts a LOT of things out of range of the
West coast. And vice versa.
Using MS MapPoint, I just plotted out what would be within 999 minutes'
driving distance (max. 3 digits, and guessed an average speed of 60 MPH,
giving us roughly 1000 miles, just for reference). From Syracuse, NY,
that gets us to Jacksonville, Memphis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, or
Omaha. This is all "roughly".
~From Oakland, CA, it's bleak. Same parameters. Albuquerque, Cheyenne,
Helena, Vancouver. The American West is BIG.
There is a whole lotta NOTHING in the area which would be equidistant
for the extremes of the DML crowd. I was half-joking when I suggested
South Dakota, but that may actually be viable. But then we'd start
excluding people at the other edges - TX, FL, SoCal.
Again, these are only guesses based on what MapPoint provides. I think
Jason's suggestion of using the Debian project's little map is a very
good one, the catch being that it only plots as the crow flies, it won't
follow roads.
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