On the topic of inexact units of measure, a friend of mine stopped for directions in Indiana a number of years ago, and he was told to drive down the road about a “fursee” and then turn right.  He asked what a fursee was, and they guy told him, “about as fur as you can see.”  True story.  See below:

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fursee

 

Enjoy the rest of your Friday J

 

Geoff

 

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From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Jablonski
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 2:00 PM
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Subject: Re: "Mathematical data for bibliographic descriptions of cartographic materials and spatial data" gone?

 

Maybe it's time we did some work over here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_measurement#Units_of_length




Jon Jablonski

Spatial Data Librarian

Map & Imagery Lab

UCSB Library

 

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hey all,

 

I was talking about scale and mentioned Jan Smits' excellent web page for older units of measure but when I went to the link I have I got the dreaded 404 message. Doing a quick search in Google and Yahoo pulled up nothing. I couldn't find it on the library's web page (but then I don't read Dutch). Does anyone know where it went?

 

Susan Moore

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, IA

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