Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!wdl1!mhb From: mhb@wdl1.UUCP (Michael H. Bender) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: spatial reference in natural language Message-ID: <3540002@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 11:59:14 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.3540002 Posted: Mon Nov 30 11:59:14 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Dec-87 05:36:17 EST References: <6818@sunybcs.UUCP> Lines: 10 In the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay area it is common to refer to travel towards San Francisco as being North and the other direction as being South, even though the roads actually lead East and West at this point. I believe that this is an example of how people use "pseudo" or "local" coordinate systems that have littel to do with the real coordinates. Mike Bender