Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!sdcsvax!hp-sdd!andrea From: andrea@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Andrea K. Frankel) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: spatial reference in natural language Message-ID: <1057@hp-sdd.HP.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 14:44:10 EST Article-I.D.: hp-sdd.1057 Posted: Tue Dec 1 14:44:10 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 22:51:11 EST References: <6818@sunybcs.UUCP> <3540002@wdl1.UUCP> Reply-To: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel) Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division Lines: 25 In article <3540002@wdl1.UUCP> mhb@wdl1.UUCP (Michael H. Bender) writes: >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've found this to be true all along the California coastline - the ocean establishes "west", and all other directions are relative to that. There are several places (such as approaching LA from the south) where the freeways are running east-west or nearly so, but that doesn't affect most people's perception that LA is north when you're approaching from San Diego. This orientation towards the ocean as the major landmark can really become habitual, to the point of creating massive disorientation when visiting the East Coast or when on the eastern side of a peninsula on the Bay! Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664 "...like a song that's born to soar the sky" ______________________________________________________________________________ UUCP : ...hplabs!hp-sdd!andrea from {ihnp4|cbosgd|allegra|decvax|gatech|sun|tektronix} or ...hp-sdd!andrea from {hp-pcd|hpfcla|hpda|noscvax|gould9|sdcsvax} Internet : andrea%hp-sdd@ {nosc.mil | sdcsvax.ucsd.edu | hplabs.HP.com} CSNET : andrea%hp-sdd@hplabs.csnet USnail : 16399 W. Bernardo Drive, San Diego CA 92127-1899 USA