On Sun, 04 May 2008 10:51:05 GMT, "Charles Wm. Dimmick"
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> wrote:
> Brettster wrote:
> > My regular walk to the Beverly Hills Public Library seems like a
> > gradual uphill climb -- nothing on par with San Francisco, but a very
> > slight incline most or all of the way. As you might expect, the walk
> > back home is a breeze. According to my handheld Garmin GPS, it's
> > exactly 1.75 miles each way. But I wondered exactly how much height I
> > was achieving on my walk, in addition to the distance. How can I tell?
> > Can a handheld device measure something like that? It could be several
> > feet or, I suppose, it could be more. I have utterly no idea. Any
> > ideas?
>
> Look at a topographic map for the area. Too bad it's not Connecticut,
> or I could look it up for you. I have a complete set of Connecticut
> topographic maps at scale of 1:24,000 [1 inch = 2000 ft]. Seems to
> me I remember the the USGS has an on-line site which allows you to
> look at a topographic map for anywhere in the contiguous US.
How many topo maps are required for Connecticut? I'm kind of
surprised it's plural, actually. That's probably Rhode Island,
though, with a single sheet.
OK, I'm just kidding, but I just figured out how big my area code is.
Bishop, up on the back side of the Sierra Nevada, is in it and it runs
south of here, toward the border. Sure makes those sites that pretend
to provide local listings based on an area code look silly. Whatever
else Bishop may be, it's not local to Palm Desert.
Mary "Unpopulated, maybe, but it's big"
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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote re****ts about it.
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