On 24 Jan 2013 at 16:25, Christopher Green wrote: > Question. There is a bridge that runs across the extreme western end > of Lake Ontario. It's called the Burlington Skyway. (Essentially, it > allows people traveling around the western edge of the lake to bypass > Hamilton.) > > > On this (otherwise very interesting map), the Burlington Skyway is > covered with dots. So far as I know, no one lives on the bridge. Why > does it have any dots?
Good question. The answer is that they're living alongside the bridge (and they aren't trolls either). I used to live in Hamilton while I studied at McMaster. I never went down there, but I seemed to recall that there were streets there. Sure enough, Google maps shows a spit of land running alongside the Skyway, and that's probably where those dots reside. What struck me about the map, aside from illustrating the vast unpopulated wilderness of my own country (which is hardly a surprise but impressive nonetheless), was how neatly the populated east was divided from the sparse west (except for the west coast). It's as though a line was drawn north to south through the middle of the continent. To the east, people. To the west, not so much. Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=23268 or send a blank email to leave-23268-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
