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(...) Dear head co-ordinator, UK is short for "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". loc.uk covers : Channel Islands Ireland/Éire Scotland England Isle of Man Northern Ireland Wales Why does uklug not do the same? (...) So NI, and (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) What is UKLUG? Who is in it? Why are parts of Ireland not in it? What are the membership restrictions? Are there any membership fees? What will it do? What won't it do? Will it allow citizens of other countries, or citizens in the UK who are (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.loc.uk)
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See (URL) for a variety of projection styles. (26 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org)
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(...) king (...) These are Mercator projections, I think (URL) Are there any maps about that show a true scale between continents ? Yes, there are other projections. One of my favourites (whose name I can't remember) preserves the relative sizes of (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org)
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(...) Good work Eric, and a very timely idea. One question though, the map you use as a basis for your map has a very skewed projection in favour of the area towards the arctic circle. Greenland is not as big as South America ! Who commissioned this (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org)
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(...) Hmmm.. Where do you work? Just curious. And I don't know why census blocks are confidential - but like everything about the census is. I can see why personal information is confidential (title 13 USC, got that one memorized by now) but not (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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(...) Hi Eric! (...) LegOz (as opposed to LEGOz - too similar to LEGO and LEGOs) represents the whole of Australia. Whilst most (in fact all at this stage) of the action is taking place in Sydney + surrounds, we would like it to move nation-wide as (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org)
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Hey all, I just have a quick question about LEGOz. As some of you know I am working on the LUGMAP, (URL) am wondering what the best way to represent LEGOz is. Does LEGOz represent all of Australia or does it represent a smaller section of Australia (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org)
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(...) I will see what I can do. Shouldn't be a problem though. I have received a number of tweaks to the maps so I will be makings a few changes when I get back from my current business trip. Thanks, Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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(...) I'm the head co-ordinator of UKLUG. The surface area it covers is Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland and the small islands). None of Ireland (North or South) is covered. Can we be orange (HTML #FF9966) please :-) Carbon 60 (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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(...) Looks like I did. Thanks for the pointer I was unaware of UKLUG. I will add it in after I get back from my current business trip. If anyone is aware of any other groups I missed please let me know. Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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(...) Todd (...) [big snip] Great job, Eric. Just one question: didn't you miss the UKLUG ((URL) in the map of Europe? Mario (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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(...) For those that may be wondering the maps can be found at: (URL) are also many links to these maps from the LUGNET home page as well as in the lugnet.org.* and lugnet.loc.* hierarchies. Finally I just wanted to remind people that when you get (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.org.nl, lugnet.org.us)
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(...) I am not sure but I think you need to drill in one more level. For example when you drill into the US in the North America Map you get two maps. One for LUG's and one for LTC's. These maps are really Thumbnails of the maps for the two groups. (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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(...) No, but we have digital versions of the census block groups in our library at work. It wouldn't suprise me if they are confidential, our library has some strange quirks about security. -chris (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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(...) Yah Yah picky picky :-). Not the worlds greatest speller by any means. (...) That's it. There are actually pointers to it on the LUGNET home page and most of the lugnet.org.* pages as well as some of the lugnet.loc.* pages. Anyway this will (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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(...) Oh, and I think you may want to increase the scale a bit when you drill in, the NA map for example has group names so small you can't read them. Either that or put the group names in a "key" with color boxes below ++Lar (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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(...) I think that's great news indeed, but I think you meant graciously. :-) Do you know where on LUGNET they are? I didn't spot a pointer to them in your post. I got snoopy and i think it's here: (URL) but I am not sure if this is it or not. ++Lar (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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FUT lugnet.org For those of you that don't know I have been working on the LUG Map that Todd and Suz have greatiously decided to host here on LUGNET. For the most part we have worked out the issues with keeping the map updated. About the only thing (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.org.ca, lugnet.org.nl, lugnet.org.us)
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(...) Census block? Do you work for them? I do. I do know that those maps are confidential (and AFAIK only come in large rolls and in address registers for the different AA's) I also know that the way they give you the questionnaires in the books, (...) (26 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.org)
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