<VV> Maps

[Mike Kost]

One of the things which gets confusing to many people is it seems 
traffic engineers have new ideas on what makes a good intersection. It 
takes several years for those new ideas to make their way into common 
usage and people to start understanding how to use them. The current new 
ideas in the US are the Diverging Diamond which crosses all traffic over 
each other before and after an overpass so that turns onto an interstate 
are not crossing oncoming traffic. The other current fad here (common in 
much of the rest of the world) is the traffic circle. Unfortunately many 
that I see are too small.

Mike Kost

On 4/5/2020 2:45 AM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs wrote:
> That's an interesting take. The closest I've ever got to the souhern 
> hemisphere is Key West. But I'm sure I would be thrown more by having 
> the sun rising on the right and setting on the left. I don't think 
> having the sun to the north would trouble me as much, since everything 
> is 'upside down' in the Antipodes anyway.
>
>
> On 2020-04-05 01:59, Colin via VirtualVairs wrote:
>> Hugo's comment regarding the position of the sun in the southern 
>> hemisphere
>> is on the right track. But I can assure you all that the sun still 
>> rises in
>> the east and sets in the west.
>>
>> When I was at the Denver convention some years back, I wondered why I 
>> was
>> losing track of where I was. Then I realised it was related to the 
>> position
>> of the sun. For 60 plus years the sun had always been in the northern 
>> half
>> of the sky, but in Denver it was in the southern half of sky. Once 
>> you get
>> your sense of north and south back to front, you automatically get 
>> east and
>> west back to front, and you lose track of where you are.
>>
>> The GPS at the time was my saviour.
>>
>> Colin LYNN 28299
>>
>> Perth, Western Australia
>>
>>
>>
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