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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:56:17 -0400
From: Howard Stone <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The World's Largest (Rotating) Globe! <fwd>
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>Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:34:18 -0400
>From: Howard Stone <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: The World's Largest (Rotating) Globe! <fwd>
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>I called up the URL for Eartha, and out of curiosity clicked on the
directions to DeLorme's headquarters in Yarmouth, ME from my hometown of
East Providence, RI. The directions and time estimates were comically
impractical and unrealistic. In E. Providence, speed limits of 48 and 60
mph are assumed for congested local streets with a 30 mph speed limit and
traffic lights every few blocks. Instead of routing you around Boston on
I-95, the route brings you through the city and its adjoining suburbs (via
Boston's worst ghetto) on local streets, again assuming average speeds of
50 mph. It's obvious that the route was never field tested or evaluated by
a human being. These directions don't exactly live up to DeLorme's claim to
being a "top map publisher ... providing cutting edge mapping and
navigation products to consumers".
>
>Howard Stone
>Brown Univ.
>
>At 05:14 PM 5/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>>Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 10:05:56 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: The World's Largest (Rotating) Globe!
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>>The mapping firm of Delorme claims to have the world's largest globe,
>>recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. Called EARTHA, it was
>>probably paid for by the astouding success of their Atlas and Gazetteer
>>series for each US state.You may peruse their website on the subject at:
>>
>>www.delorme.com/eartha/
>>
>>I notice that 'Eartha' is a registered trademark; I wonder what the feisty
>>singer, Miss Eartha Kitt, thinks about THAT?
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>>Brian P. Bach
>>Maps Specialist
>>Documents/Maps
>>Central Washington University Library
>>400 E. 8th Ave.
>>Ellensburg, WA 98926-7548
>>USA
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