Re: mapping the world

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

Geleia is about 850mi by 350 or so miles.  Its the size of the
main Island of great britan.

considering that the majority oft he islands that adventures take place
on, it's only chewing up what, bout 300,000 square miles.  That leaves
a damn pile of 1mi/1mi islands.  Several million.

Anyways, to be honest, place Geleia where ya want it, just keep it
on the general other side of the planet where Dana said it was.  Exactness
doesn't really matter so long as it can catch a cold southern flow.

As for all this math stuff, let me know when you are done.  And then
one of you please write something up, and I'll put it int he new stuff
if you desire.  

Wright


> > > 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
>