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From: mhb@wdl1.UUCP (Michael H. Bender)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: spatial reference in natural language
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Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 11:59:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 30 11:59:14 1987
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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