User talk:Oleoglggm

Don't rag on me if Randall's graticule mapper chops New York City in two. I tried fractional longitudes but it didn't work.

New York City Graticule

Oleo,

Something's wrong with the links created by the location lookup software when zoomed in. While the link it gave you lists the graticule as 40,-74, the actual graticule for most of NYC except Staten Island and small slivers of Manhattan and Brooklyn is 40, -73. To see this, try the link without any zoom parameters: http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=40&long=-73 . You could also go to google maps, right-click any point within the city (except those few outside of the box, of course), and click "directions to here". The numbers before the decimal will be 40, -73. I've changed the main page, as well as the specific New York, NY page that you set up.

Regards, Cogito

P.S. Hope to see you this weekend.

EDIT: Whoops, turns out I was wrong. Stupid negative sign threw me off. I fixed it back.

2ND EDIT: OK, here's the confusion... If you're simply appending the decimal to the latitude, you should append it to -73. However, if you're viewing the algorithm as "add the decimal to the latitude" instead of "append the decimal to the latitude", then you should add it to -74. This weirdness results from the negative sign.