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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:47:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
Cc:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/astro/xearth Makefile ports/astro/xearth/pkgPLIST
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910270045530.29073-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991027173742.M17481@cs.waikato.ac.nz>

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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Joerg Micheel wrote:

> > > With this commit I officially decree myself NO LONGER the maintainer of
> > > this file.  Anyone else who wants in it can just add themselves; it's all
> > > committers (with one exception) anyhow.
> > 
> > As you're walking away, do you happen to know any method that one can get
> > their latitude/longitude?  I would have added myself long since, if I knew
> > where I was  (all stupid jokes, please insert here!)
> 
> Well, there is only a partial list at:
> 
> 	http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/cities.html
> 
> but, maybe, Baltimore will do for a start:
> 
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?imgsize=320&opt=-z&lat=39.2905&ns=North&lon=76.6125&ew=West&alt=15&img=learth.evif
> 
> I can see it is dark at your place at the moment!

It's also about 40 miles away.  There isn't any general way, some map site
that has lat/long on tap?  I was really asking to get it into the mail
archives.  If there was a good procedure to follow, folks would rush to
add their names.

> 
> 	Joerg
> 

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