X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,f076f407587dc787 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-21 21:58:04 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!brick.direct.ca!quark.idirect.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: llizard Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: School Map Organization: via Internetdirect, Canada; zone 6A (or is it 5b?) Reply-To: llizard@idirct.ca Message-ID: References: <3AD4DD75.FDABAC7D@homail.com> <3AD5EDBC.62403CCF@homail.com> <3adf029b.511825@news.ntlworld.com> <3m91et0jljpfv31h9rb28jos8u3e4j7i8r@4ax.com> <3AE1AC94.C2909A2F@homail.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 95 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:56:19 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.154.0.131 X-Complaints-To: abuse@look.ca X-Trace: quark.idirect.com 987915380 216.154.0.131 (Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:56:20 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:56:20 EDT Xref: newsfeed.google.com alt.ascii-art:5345 On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:48:29 GMT, Kyle Baker wrote: >llizard wrote: >> >> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:23:27 GMT, stumo@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) >> wrote: >> >> >On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:59:30 GMT, Kyle Baker enlightened us >> >with: >> > >> >> Ok, here's the map changed just a little. I tried adding Mexico, Puerto >> >> Rico, Cuba, and the Bahamas. All comments are WELCOME! >> >> >> >> Kyle >> >> >> >> ________________________________________________ >> >> ()_______________________________________________) >> >> | | >> >> | ________________.-.___ __/\ | [snip] >> >> | \\ \ / `-` \__ \ | >> >> | \\ \ | \ \ , | >> >> | `' \ / ___ `' '. | >> >> | | | '--.`'. _ ` | >> >> | \ | .-. `-` | \ __ | >> >> | \ \__/ / `---' `-` | >> >> | `'-._____/ | >> >> |_______________________________________________| >> >> | >> >> o KPB >> >> >> > >> > >> >Speaking as a non-american, the mexico part seems disproportionally large - >> >surely nothing's bigger than the US? Also, how about putting in the >> >US/Mexico border? >> >> Speaking as a non-american, the Canada part seems disproportionately >> small. [snip] >Actually, to be honest, I liked it better before I added Mexico. The >reason Canada is so small is because it's not there. The entire top >portion is the United States, but that's another story. I figured that Kyle. It was my idea of a little joke. Lots of times I look at weather forecasts on US television stations and the map used looks like the US is an island (no Mexico or Canada) >It isn't very >good. I probably shouldn't have bothered posting it. > No, no. It's good. I'm glad you posted it. How about putting just a vague hint that there are other landmasses attached to the US, something like this: ________________________________________________ ()_______________________________________________) | ; ; | | ; ________________.-.___ __/\ | | /` \ / / | | / \/ / | | | | | | | \ | | \ / | | \__ \ | | \ __ ___ ____ \ | | ` ;`._ / `-` \__ \ | | ` `---'; \ \ , | | ` `' '. | |_______________________________________________| | o KPB I'm not entirely sure where PuertoRico is so I left all those little islands - one of them must be the right one. I notice that on the map on this page: http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/AASG/AASG.html#STATES there are insets of Alaska and Hawaii. How about adding those to your map? NOTE: I never pick up my mail from the yahoo address. If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "idirct"; its absence is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- llizard aka ejm >%^7^^^7^^ llizard@idirec+.ca ASCII-art & ASCII-animation www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/ascii-art/