Re: Map Sizes

Status: RO

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>>2 miles = 3 kilometers
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>This tends to run you into problems in North America, though. You're
>safer with 6 miles = 10 kilometres. 100 km/hour speed limit in Ontario
>means about 60 miles per hour, not 66 miles per hour (actually, we all
>know that he police don't blink until you hit 120 km/hr anyway; it's
>the only way anyone gets anywhere on the continent's second busiest
>highway).

I guess they don't have photo radar in Ontario yet. I have friends who
got tickets in the mail doing 40km/h in a 30 zone... at 4AM!!! Can you
say "money grab"?

Photo Radar, coming soon to a highway near you...

>For long North American drives, your conversion will show a
>600 mile trip as 900 km, not the closer approximation of 1000 km.
>That's an extra hour on the trip from Toronto to Milwaukee!
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>
>Allan Goodall	-  agoodall@sympatico.ca
>
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