tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post115700628774694713..comments2024-02-20T17:40:21.618-05:00Comments on jeremy freese's weblog: (quiz feature!) the correction linejeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157428733358119492006-09-04T23:58:00.000-04:002006-09-04T23:58:00.000-04:00Not directly related, but related enough: I'm in I...Not directly related, but related enough: I'm in Iowa and had to say hi from here.:-) Hi!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157295982059028192006-09-03T11:06:00.000-04:002006-09-03T11:06:00.000-04:00Much the same effect can be seen in the natural wo...Much the same effect can be seen in the natural world where right- or left-lateral <A HREF="http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/San_Andreas.html" REL="nofollow">strike-slip faults</A> truncate and offset drainages.Simon Kentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03569879198630338210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157083558014474592006-09-01T00:05:00.000-04:002006-09-01T00:05:00.000-04:00I totally would have participated in this contest ...I totally would have participated in this contest if you were giving away Kewpie, the Japanese mayonnaise. But a doll just isn't worth my time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157070670847585592006-08-31T20:31:00.000-04:002006-08-31T20:31:00.000-04:00None of this would be an issue, obviously, if my i...None of this would be an issue, obviously, if my idea of having west and east poles was adopted. Deciding their exact location was too difficult even for the United Nations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157068492907407092006-08-31T19:54:00.000-04:002006-08-31T19:54:00.000-04:00Internet Dog, as someone who grew up far into rur...Internet Dog, as someone who grew up far into rural Wisconsin I can assure that the roads there are NOT on a grid. Southwestern Wisconsin is unglaciated and very hilly so (Jeremy's snarkiness aside) building roads on a grid wouldn't make much sense. Do you really want to build a road straight over a hill when it would be easier just to follow the contures of the land? What's more do you really want to drive straight down a hill in an icy winter?Sarahlizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07372069600040243169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157046513666349812006-08-31T13:48:00.000-04:002006-08-31T13:48:00.000-04:00AK: It's an interesting question as to whether, if...AK: It's an interesting question as to whether, if the original surveying had been done in km, whether sections would be a square km. That seems to small--and that section road would instead be every other km, making a section 4km--although maybe that's me imposing my milecentric view on things.jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157046370262547582006-08-31T13:46:00.000-04:002006-08-31T13:46:00.000-04:00Non-timed trivia contests are made impossible in a...Non-timed trivia contests are made impossible in an age of Google and steroids, regardless. <BR/><BR/>I have Seeing Like A State and totally forgot that it had a correction line on the front, even though it's a superb photograph of one. There's also a nice brief description of correction lines on the back.jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157039286757075492006-08-31T11:48:00.000-04:002006-08-31T11:48:00.000-04:00There's an aerial photo of a correction line on th...There's an aerial photo of a correction line on the front cover of Jim Scott's "Seeing Like A State". You'll have to do better with trivia. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157038504712470132006-08-31T11:35:00.000-04:002006-08-31T11:35:00.000-04:00I had never experienced the rural grid system unti...I had never experienced the rural grid system until I was in Saskatchewan this summer. That's where I learned the irrationality of switching to the metric system, at least where a physical mile-based infrastructure already exists. You could easily tell if someone was a country person or a city person by whether they gave distances in miles (since every rural intersection was exactly one or two miles apart) or kilometers (the official unit of measurement that makes no sense given the mile-based grid system).AKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17548600755146885900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157034509604502782006-08-31T10:28:00.000-04:002006-08-31T10:28:00.000-04:00Not only did he google the answer, but he quoted d...Not only did he google the answer, but he quoted directly from it without attributing the source. As a professor at a major university, do you really want to reward this type of behavior (even if he sends the urine)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157031405755689532006-08-31T09:36:00.000-04:002006-08-31T09:36:00.000-04:00Sal: I can't believe you Googled up the answer! B...Sal: I can't believe you <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correctionville,_Iowa" REL="nofollow">Googled up the answer</A>! But still, you get the doll, pending results of the performance-enhancing-drug test. Send urine ASAP.jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157031202423292312006-08-31T09:33:00.000-04:002006-08-31T09:33:00.000-04:00One could also add that the idea that correction l...One could also add that the idea that correction lines only occur along the boundaries of survey townships (every sixth one, I beleive) and that the method of selling surveyed square plots was laid out by the Land Ordinance of 1785 (only of only two significant pieces of legislation passed by Congress under the Articles of Confederation) and that places like Indiana and Wisconsin (and pretty much any place west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River) should also have similar square-grid road systems because they were surveyed under the same system and you probably just didn't get far enough out in the country to observe this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157022428495407362006-08-31T07:07:00.000-04:002006-08-31T07:07:00.000-04:00which, i should add, the roads that run N-S in iow...which, i should add, the roads that run N-S in iowa are akin to longitudinal lines on a globe, but they need to "correct" for curvature of the earth, hence the "correction" line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157018651635382582006-08-31T06:04:00.000-04:002006-08-31T06:04:00.000-04:00damn, i'm hour too late! i was going to say the sa...damn, i'm hour too late! i was going to say the same thing, which is to say: longitude lines aren't really parallel over long distances, due their convergence at the poles. <BR/><BR/>but it doesn't even matter now. <BR/><BR/>but i wanted a doll.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157014193421293872006-08-31T04:49:00.000-04:002006-08-31T04:49:00.000-04:00a surveyor's "correction line" adjusts for the con...a surveyor's "correction line" adjusts for the convergence of the meridian lines, which keeps the section boundaries approximately 1 mile apart, making all sections approximately the same size (approximately 1 square mile).<BR/><BR/>-srAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com