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 Geoffrey A. Forbes, M.S. Director of Mapping LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping LLC Tel: +1.763.428.4129 Fax: +1.303.790.9734 E-mail: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] Web site: <http://www.landinfo.com/> www.landinfo.com From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Jablonski Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 2:00 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask]