John,
Thank you. But... wherefor and why ? Am I forgetting a song from my less-than-favourite but thoroughly listened-to UA period of Lightfoot's ?
I am embarrassed, as I do love ,many of the songs from that period, and I would have thought I'd remember any songs from then. Which album John ?
I have the UA LP's but have not unpacked them yet since we moved across town recently. This is too much and too cryptic.. are u pulling my leg again April 1st style John, as in the X-ray TV ...LOL., If so I must be quite the cuckold.
hmm in order to thwart this possible embarassment, I will distract from my lack of knowledge on this with a deft and totally non-germaine change of subject, and bore you. j/k
per the non-sequiter shift:
Your map is impressive for the forum. The HSV-cone hysographic shaded-relief algorythm is close to the North-American standard employed by Kisstler Graphics, Hubbard Scientific, and Raven maps. I specialize in this in my work !
The yellow thematically-shaded polygons, although normally placed under the linear culture and transportation layers, and annotation, are of what theme ? Unincorporated census-bureau districst ?
May I ask the web address of the site this came from; my eyes don't serve down in the lower right (...).com . Curiosity only. One interesting thing.... the artifical light source in a shaded relief model is generally placed at an unnatural nut necessary position of 45 degrees above the horizon (altititude) and 315 degrees clockwise from North (azimuth) to avoid the optical illusion of relief reversal.
This map appears closer to Westerly (270 +/-) apparent lightsource, but still works, making me wonder which company did it.
Its an amazing phenomenon. If you take an impossibly-round cone, cut into a frustum thereof at an equal altitude aproximately 1/3 that of the width of the cone, then place a concave basin in it perhaps 1/2 the depth of the total, then move the light source to "natural", the "dimpled-cone" startlingly turns into an apparent crater, with a convex mound in its center.!
It is an amazing illustration in texts. This "wrong" (315 degree) light source that *works* to the human eye is of course about 135 degreea off of naturally-occuring southerly azimuthal range, which produces the reversal of relief in many but not all models. Weird.
Well... having attempted for amusement to distract from my ignorance of the song..., thanks for the lyrics in the song but again, but what's the source in Lightfoot's library ?
thanks John,-- Steve
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