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OT: Delphi XE2 uses FPC, plus VCL just not portable

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Dimitri Smits
----- "Graeme Geldenhuys" wrote 13 lines
> I strongly suspect that the "center of the world" directly depends on > the country which produced the map. I can't say I have ever seen that. I just did a Google Images search for "World Map", and 99.99% of the world maps showed Africa in the middle. But yes, I did see one or two out of the 63 million Google results showing Australia or America in the center, but that is clearly a very small minority. ;-)

and if you can google it, then it MUST be true :-)

like I said in my original post: the *convention* is to have the horizontal centre at the GMT/Greenwitch 0 meridian. ("the brittish seem to have won that one"), but that does not rule out "other views" of a "world map".

but that doesn't take away that other peoples ("volkeren") have or have had a more self-centered (or of their oppressors') view on the world. (same with the London/GMT version, only that one made it).

As a nice example of "we are the world": startup your browser and head to http://maps.google.com => USA is the landing spot (regardless of the fact that you are browsing in from China, Germany, UK, USA, Brasil, Zuid-Afrika, Trinidat/Tobago or the moon). :-)

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Dimitri Smits

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Ludo Brands
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As a nice example of "we are the world": startup your browser and head to http://maps.google.com => USA is the landing spot (regardless of the fact that you are browsing in from China, Germany, UK, USA, Brasil, Zuid-Afrika, Trinidat/Tobago or the moon). :-)

Bad example. Try http://maps.google.cn http://maps.coogle.co.za or http://maps.google.com.br/. I don't have the top level domain for the moon ;)
.com was originally US.

Ludo

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Graeme Geldenhuys
to Ludo Brands
Ludo Brands wrote
> Germany, UK, USA, Brasil, Zuid-Afrika, Trinidat/Tobago or the > moon). :-)

Uh, internet on the moon? Cool!

Bad example. Try http://maps.google.cn http://maps.coogle.co.za or http://maps.google.com.br/. I don't have the top level domain for the moon ;)

:-)
And to make that Google Maps example even worse, if I type http://maps.google.com or http://maps.google.co.za/ it defaults to my house location. :-) I guess some browser cookie magic Regards,
? - Graeme -

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Dimitri Smits
to Graeme Geldenhuys
----- "Graeme Geldenhuys" wrote 17 lines
On 8 August 2011 17:46, Ludo Brands wrote: >> Germany, UK, USA, Brasil, Zuid-Afrika, Trinidat/Tobago or the >> moon). :-) Uh, internet on the moon? Cool! > Bad example. Try http://maps.google.cn http://maps.coogle.co.za or > http://maps.google.com.br/. I don't have the top level domain for the moon > ;) :-) And to make that Google Maps example even worse, if I type http://maps.google.com or http://maps.google.co.za/ it defaults to my house location. :-) I guess some browser cookie magic is at work.

actually you just proved my point then about your world (map) view ("it is all centered around...") :-)

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Dimitri Smits

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