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If we’re not using the Phillips 66 as our plotting surface, why are we using its scale? 🤪
And before we get again into “but he’s just using the scale on the map. He hasn’t analysed it to deduce its errors” … Having, as proposed, just meas…
No. No! Absolutely NO! Two places anywhere on the map separated by a measured length of 6 inches are 42.24 miles apart on the ground. How many times d…
And as a footnote, I’m wondering if this is the heart of the sticking point. I wonder if the assumption here is that we are claiming this only for us …
My explanation assumes nothing whatsoever about the scale. Absolutely NOTHING! No conversion of any kind is required at any point!! It can be three be…
The bearing and distance are given to us, the latter in inches.They point to a place we can identify on the map. In the real world, we go there. Map…
We are not interested in any “distance on the ground.” You dropped distance out of the quotes. Once we’ve identified the place or area on the map, sur…
And more to the point, as a final note, it doesn’t matter what the distance on the map corresponds to in miles on the ground, because we’re not intere…
Six inches on the Phillips 66 map represents 42.24 miles on the ground. You keep fudging the difference issue as if it isn’t there. It doesn’t matter …
We were explicitly and incontrovertibly given it. We were directed, along with the code, to use “The Map.” There is no ‘assuming’ here. The Map. ……
The question was not whether The Zodiac had instructed us to use another map or not. It was where we had been instructed only to give consideration to…
The solver in 1970 was given a physical map and a distance in inches. There is then no need to give consideration to any scale whatsoever, correct or …
On the contrary, the straight-forward method makes no assumptions beyond the mere fact that we’ve been given a map so we work on the map, which is who…
It is categorically not an ‘interpretation’. That is the point. Here’s a piece of paper with some stuff on it. Here’s a bearing and a length in inch…
This reasoning evidences a major conflation between your application to the map and to the real world of certain concepts. Actual magnetic north at th…