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Hello! Being the author of the blog post commented here, I'm glad it became food for thoughts. Here a few of the salient points: > They are not cathedrals! T
by SebastianoF 2y ago
Hello!
Being the author of the blog post commented here, I'm glad it became food for thoughts.
Here a few of the salient points:
> They are not cathedrals!
True! As I learned after writing the blog post, a Cathedral is not simply a large church. As written in several comments there has to be a bishop.
> Fallacy of using other projection than the Mercator one.
It was known that they are "visually" aligned on the Mercator projection. The question is: does it mean that they are aligned on the surface of the earth? That question was the crucial one underpinned the post.
> Birthday paradox and Texas sharpshooter fallacy.
These are two really interesting take on the problem that I did not considered or knew about. Certainly worth exploring in a next blog post.
Also I have to inform you that the blog is temporarily suspended. This decision is after an unfortunate billing policy from the provider netlify. It has nothing to do with the comments received here. On the contrary the comments received here had encouraged me to write more (and to document myself better beforehand).
I hope to be able to bring it up back soon with a different provider, that would not add extra costs with no capping for going "viral" and exceeding the allowed free bandwidth.
- SebastianoF 2y agoBlog is up and running again there: https://sebastianof.github.io/GeoDsBlog/posts/gds-2024-04-20-cathedrals/ https://sebastianof.github.io/GeoDsBlog/posts/gds-2024-04-20... Sorry for the temporary disruption.
- loceng 2y agoHi, I'm at least one person who emailed you to let you know this was on front page of HN. I just wrote another comment that may interest you to some degree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607523 It's probably best to reply to each person's comment, letting them know first also know you're author of the article/project.
- koolala 2y agoHi the website was down. Thank you for sharing your ideas! When you say "strait line" is it globe based curved path like the flight of a bird? Why was it called a sword? Edit: found a working link! still extra extra curious!
- fwungy 2y agoWould it be hard to try this on the Azimuthal Equidistant projection?
- araes 2y agoHuh. I think St. Michael might be clever. The second line goes through areas where there are many Michael named locations. Often disproportionately. Cyprus: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@34.8439762,32.416121,10.31z?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@34.8439762,3... Rhodos: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@36.5898973,27.8250145,9.85z?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@36.5898973,2... Thessaloniki: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@40.9052893,22.6332615,8.09z?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@40.9052893,2... Croatia: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@44.8895084,13.9515092,8.09z?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@44.8895084,1... Switzerland: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@47.0545837,8.5503573,8.96z?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@47.0545837,8... France, almost right through Paris notably: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@48.823467,2.262514,10.46z/data=!4m2!2m1!6e1?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@48.823467,2.... England, Exeter area (bunch of Michael churches): https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@50.7123109,-3.8313654,10.25z/data=!4m2!2m1!6e1?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@50.7123109,-... Many are actually kind of notable in that they bunch fairly near the geodesic like in Croatia. They might be the birthday paradox, definitely a possibility. Yet quite a bit of clustering along that route.
- fsckboy 2y ago>As written in several comments there has to be a bishop you missed a chance to say "only under a bishopric" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bishopric https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bishopric