Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!gistdev!joe From: joe@gistdev.UUCP (Joe Brownlee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Bug report for Map Cdev ( Apple Inc.) Keywords: Map Cdev Message-ID: <814@gistdev.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 14:35:03 GMT References: <581@nikhefk.UUCP> Reply-To: joe@gistdev.UUCP (Joe Brownlee) Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL Lines: 23 In article <581@nikhefk.UUCP> keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser) writes: >The Map Cdev as delivered in System 6.0.x has a bug in >the distance calculation. [...] > > This bug is not in every location in the Map database, some locations > will give you zero miles and zero kilometers. A real fun location > to try out is Denver: it is 10 miles/10 kilometers from Denver... > The same holds for Salt Lake City. [...] > >Anybody care to comment? > >--kees I entered my home town of Champaign, Illinois by exact Lat/Long from an atlas and -- guess what -- Champaign is 10 mi. from Champaign, too. I tried a bunch of things to change this with no luck. I know Einstein said the universe is curved, but this is somewhat extreme... Joe Brownlee | Captain, please -- not in front of the Klingons. GIST, Inc. | -- Mr. Spock, Star Trek V 1800 Woodfield Dr. | Pay attention to what I say, and you might start a trend. Savoy, IL 61874 | ARPANET: joe%gistdev@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (217) 352-1165 | UUCP : {uunet,pur-ee,convex}!gistdev!joe