{"id":2969,"date":"2010-11-30T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2010-11-30T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T12:00:08","slug":"american-cities-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/american-cities-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"American cities in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/195\/\">before<\/a>, Europeans tend to think that most American cities are located much further north than they actually are (because we don&#8217;t take into account the effects of the Gulf Stream).<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate this, I&#8217;ve tried to place a few cities of the US and Canada on a map of Europe:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AmericainEurope.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AmericainEurope.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"America in Europe\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2970\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In general, US cities are on the same latitude as Spain, Italy, Greece and northern Africa, while Canadian cities would be placed in Germany and France.  Only Alaska really is far north.<\/p>\n<p>PS: If you want to do what I did, search for a place name in Google Maps, right-click on the &#8220;A&#8221; icon and select &#8220;What&#8217;s here?&#8221;; the coordinates will now appear in the search bar, and you can replace the longitude number with a European value (between -10 and 40). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, Europeans tend to think that most American cities are located much further north than they actually are (because we don&#8217;t take into account the effects of the Gulf Stream). To illustrate this, I&#8217;ve tried to place a few cities of the US and Canada on a map of Europe: In general, US cities are on the same latitude as Spain, Italy, Greece and northern Africa, while Canadian cities would be placed in Germany and France. Only Alaska really is far north. PS: If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}