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altitude data?altitude data?Posted Mar 7, 2009 1:54 UTC (Sat) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)In reply to: altitude data? by roskegg Parent article: OpenStreetMap: the data behind the maps I figured that it was for such reasons. Honestly, you're better off leaving the truth of mythos as mythos, and not trying to "prove" it with the mechanisms of logos. They are two separate categories of truth, and it's a category error to use one to "prove" the other. Especially since mythos is not intended to be literal and provable.
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altitude data? Posted Mar 7, 2009 1:55 UTC (Sat) by roskegg (subscriber, #105) [Link]
That is a very logical approach to the matter, but doesn't really help those who don't wish to sever the connection between science and religion.
altitude data? Posted Mar 9, 2009 3:22 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] That is a very logical approach to the matter, but doesn't really help those who don't wish to sever the connection between science and religion.You are well able to sever the connection between science and religion for yourself. The problem is that there will still be religionists for whom this has no meaning. One I discussed the issue with confessed a lack of belief in cause and effect.
altitude data? Posted Mar 9, 2009 17:10 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
However hard you try, you're never going to get OpenStreetMap to show you how to find the Easter bunny.
This entire discussion is so ridiculous that I'm having trouble believing it isn't all a joke, but surely the answer is that, assuming the Earth to be an oblate spheroid of constant density (not actually true but apparently close enough), any point lying on the equator, plus the poles, would be 'directly above' the centre of mass, if by that you mean that the surface normal at that point intersects the centre (NB. this is based on my intuitive geometric understanding of the spheroid. I haven't attempted to verify it mathematically, though doing so should be straightforward).
If you actually care about the Euclidean distance from the centre, then clearly the poles are going to be the closest points, and given that the density of the Earth isn't really constant, one is likely to be closer than the other (an earlier poster claimed that the north pole is closer to the Earth's centre of mass than the south). Note that the equatorial region, though 'directly above' the centre of mass, is furthest from it.
Re: Mythos vs Logos Posted Mar 26, 2009 9:25 UTC (Thu) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link] flewellyn wrote:
So the fact that there are two different categories of truthwhat kind of truth is that? Is that a mythos or a logos truth?
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