{"id":323,"date":"2005-04-06T20:09:04","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T20:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/323"},"modified":"2005-04-06T20:09:04","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T20:09:04","slug":"the-map-is-not-the-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/323","title":{"rendered":"The map is not the territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting how the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.394886,-122.078898&#038;spn=0.007414,0.010010&#038;t=k\">Google satellite pictures<\/a> differ ever so slightly from the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.394886,-122.078898&#038;spn=0.007414,0.010010\">Google map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> In particular, notice how the NW-to-SE roads are skewed about 5 degrees clockwise from true while the NE-to-SW roads are skewed about 5 degrees <i>counterclockwise<\/i> from true. (Click on the image for higher-resolution.)<\/p>\n<p>On second thought, it could be that the map is correct and the satellite images are skewed to locally fit the Google perspective. Maybe the map <i>is<\/i> the territory after all!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/mountainview-overlayed.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/archives\/mountainview-overlayed-sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting how the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.394886,-122.078898&#038;spn=0.007414,0.010010&#038;t=k\">Google satellite pictures<\/a> differ ever so slightly from the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.394886,-122.078898&#038;spn=0.007414,0.010010\">Google map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> In particular, notice how the NW-to-SE roads are skewed about 5 degrees clockwise from true while the NE-to-SW roads are skewed about 5 degrees <i>counterclockwise<\/i> from true. (Click on the image for higher-resolution.)<\/p>\n<p>On second thought, it could be that the map is correct and the satellite images are skewed to locally fit the Google perspective. Maybe the map <i>is<\/i> the territory after all!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/mountainview-overlayed.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/archives\/mountainview-overlayed-sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}