>All of Spain is further north than Tennessee, the US state where I live. Tennessee is on about the same >latitude as Algeria.
That's another example of the "anticlockwise axis tilt" of perceptions of places versus where they actually are. I've noticed that several places in the world are tilted anticlockwise compared to where one expects them to be. To me living in the UK, the natural way of thinking suggests that Edinburgh-London-Paris are on a N-S axis. They're not, it's actually NNW-SSE - tilted anticlockwise. Likewise I imagine Paris and New York, and London-Amsterdam-Berlin-Moscow, to be on W-E axes. Again they're not, it's approx WSW-ENE in all cases, so again the axis is tilted anticlockwise. Tennessee I'd have imagined, before I realised (some years ago) how much further south the USA is compared to where you think it is, as being about the same as southern France or northern Spain. The much wetter climate of the USA compared to most of Spain, and certainly north Africa, plays a role in this. My one visit to SE USA was changing planes at Atlanta, GA and it was very green - comparable to the UK or France. Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
