Re: mapping the world

[Steve Ames <steve@ns1.cioe.com>]

> > Jaern: 30 degrees north lattitude, 70 degrees longitude (dunno east/west)
> > Galeia: 30 degrees south lattitude, 70 degrees longitude (again...)
> > Centralia: 60 degrees north lattitude, 70 degrees longitude (with Galeia)
> >
> > My bad for getting those backward Sean. Thanks for pointing it out.
> > Now if someone wants to arbitrarily decide where 0 degrees longitude
> > is so that we can decide east/west issues :)
> >
> > 						-Steve
>
> Actually...
>
> Assuming a set-up similar to earth, with an arbitray zero, with Longitude
> measured east and west from it, to 180 Degrees on the other side of the 
> world, the opposite side of the world from 70 Degrees [East/West] would 
> be 110 Degrees [West/East].
>
> Sorry for the nitpick. Geography is one of the things I like to do. :)

Damn. I'm just not going to get this right am I? Righto... so Galeia
and Centralia are (as Sean rightly and happily points out) are at
110 degrees lattitude and not 70 degrees. Pity the book didn't give
a clue such as 'in the eastern hemisphere'. I'm going to arbitrarily
call Lojem the western hemisphere until I'm corrected *grin*

So:

Lojem:	70 degrees west longitude, 30 degrees north lattitude
Galeia:	110 degrees east longitude, 30 degrees south lattitude
Centralia: 110 degrees east longitude, 60 degrees north lattitude

This sounding about par with everyone? If so, next step is just
to lay out the grid and mark out the setting margins so we
don't step on one anothers toes. ie I have to know that if I
journey 5 weeks south to the strange island of Dr Morieu that
I have actually entered the Galia setting and must confer with
the GMs there before continuing.

Also how much land mass (in square mets) did Wright say Galeia
was using? How much does that leave left over for the rest of
the world?

Surface Area we get (4 * PI * r^2) or (4 * PI * 5750^2) =  
415,463,375 square mets * .05 (5% land mass) = 20,773,168.75 square mets
of land. 

(Not checking your math wright, just deleted your message. oops)
Thats about  2,980,539.593377 square miles. 36,291 is Indiana. So,
assuming my math is even close, the entire planet of Jaern has
the land mass of about 82 times Indiana... or about 11 times that
of Texas. That's a chunk of land. keep in mind that our planet
earth has about 13 times as much surface area of which 30 percent
is land... so we have about 100 times as much land. This is an
adjustment but it could also lead to a different kind of setting
(and I think that was the goal).

I think the only unfortunate part of being in a water world is
that the skills don't reflect this. Swimming, boats and marine
type skills should be second nature. How can you _NOT_ know how
to swim? Or sail a boat, or fish. Childhood skills. Dolphins?
Way under untilized because horses are cheaper even though far
more rare. *shrug*

Lots of math in this posting... much of it worthless :) I say
we just build as we need to and adjust the facts to match us
and not the other way around. They are a guideline, not a rule.

						-Steve