Is this map with north correct?

[phil]

This map shows sunrise, sunset, moonrise & set, and prevailing winds. Does it seem correct to the eplaya hive mind?

[Bob]

Center line of the city is usually oriented NE-SW, if that's what you're asking.

Re: accuracy, looks as accurate as the scale implies, ie not very. Looks like it was based on a cut-and-paste JPEG, not the Autocad original. And things always shift because the survey crew uses pretty crude layout equipment on the ground.

[trilobyte]

It looks reasonably accurate, which is probably the best you could really hope for.

[illy dilly]

The North part looks about right.
Though my confusion is with the Sunrise and Sunset. Are the orange lines supposed to look "3D" and rising off the page?

Being as far as we are in the Northern Hemisphere I do not believe that this time of year the Sun would rise from north of direct east, or set north of direct west.

[junglesmacks]

Are the orange lines supposed to look "3D" and rising off the page?

Uhh.. Illy? Have you been "testing" the brownies again? Stop it. Those are for the burn..

[illy dilly]

Are the orange lines supposed to look "3D" and rising off the page?

Uhh.. Illy? Have you been "testing" the brownies again? Stop it. Those are for the burn..

Some body has to do it! lol.

No really, I don't know if the blue lines are supposed to be the shadows for the red/orange lines. Maybe the orange lines kind of point north, are supposed to show some angle up from the center. Like the person couldn't figure out how 2D diagrams work.

[phil]

>SNIP<
Though my confusion is with the Sunrise and Sunset. Are the orange lines supposed to look "3D" and rising off the page?

>SNIP<

I believe the orange lines are for sunrise and sunset, as labelled, and that the bluish lines are for moonrise and moonset, and aren't labelled.

[FIGJAM]

Phil's map shows south as 3 o'clock, were as the BM map shows south as 4:30.

That would make a big difference in my camp orientation.

[phil]

> Phil's map

Oops. Just to be sure I'm not credited with another person's hard work, it's not my map, it belongs to the person at the end of that link.

[illy dilly]

Phil's map shows south as 3 o'clock, were as the BM map shows south as 4:30.

That would make a big difference in my camp orientation.

Damn Perfectionists!

[Bob]

Well, one of you seems to have faulty reading glasses. Look again.

[illy dilly]

>SNIP<
Though my confusion is with the Sunrise and Sunset. Are the orange lines supposed to look "3D" and rising off the page?

>SNIP<

I believe the orange lines are for sunrise and sunset, as labelled, and that the bluish lines are for moonrise and moonset, and aren't labelled.

Thats how I first read it. How how on earth would the sun rise above direct east?
I understand the world rotates a good bit through the year, but does the sun ever rise above direct east?

[Bob]

I understand the world rotates a good bit through the year, but does the sun ever rise above direct east?

Jesus fuck, I give up.

[unjonharley]

phill,

You out brain buggering the herd again

[FIGJAM]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharpshutter/6018884921/

This map shows sunrise, sunset, moonrise & set, and prevailing winds. Does it seem correct to the eplaya hive mind?

Then this.

http://www.burningman.com/preparation/maps/11_maps/

I thought the cross at the Man were the cardinal points of the compass.

[FIGJAM]

http://www.burningman.com/media/doc/pdf ... er_map.pdf

[phil]

phill,

You out brain buggering the herd again

I'm either out-braining them or buggering them, I can't tell which.

[phil]

>SNIP<
I thought the cross at the Man were the cardinal points of the compass.

There's an arrow pointing north in the lower right of the map. As you've noticed, the cross is not on the compass points.

[theCryptofishist]

I understand the world rotates a good bit through the year, but does the sun ever rise above direct east?

Jesus fuck, I give up.

So, even those people up in arctic circle have the sun rise perfectly east two times a year, even though... yeah, I guess I do "equinox" has to mean something...
Besides equal day and night, I mean...

[illy dilly]

Jesus fuck, I give up.

LOL,
Phill gets all butt hurt, when someone doesn't know something.
Damn it must suck to be "know it all, ignorance pisses me off" kinda guy.

[illy dilly]

So, even those people up in arctic circle have the sun rise perfectly east two times a year, even though... yeah, I guess I do "equinox" has to mean something...
Besides equal day and night, I mean...

Yeah, I always figured Equinox meant equal amount of day and night.

[FIGJAM]

I thought equinox was just the fair distribution of beatings.

[Sail Man]

I thought equinox was just the fair distribution of beatings.