Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 29, 2015

I used to think the same thing before the GPS became commonplace.

Back in the day, how did cartographers even know where the parallels were?

Maybe you can hock that globe for cab fare Snoopy.

Actually, they are in some places. Though older surveying methods have them off by a bit.

Case in point: Meridian Road in Marathon County, Wisconsin. It’s actually about a few decimal points of a degree from the 45th meridian west of Greenwich.

And even if they are short of funds, I wish that certain cities and towns would use better signage for street names...Hint to the second-largest city in Massachusetts: you may draw in more commercial business if people are not afraid of getting lost. A small investment in street name signs may bring in a lot of tax dollars.

Plus, they have too many tax dollars, already.

Apparently, meridians don’t have a scent.

Just watch for large concrete arrows on the ground. Ignore the gold one, that’s Superman’s.

I saw a sign for longitude 90º W on my trip to Texas last week.

He’s right. After all, they do have the raods marked on the ground.

i love following my google maps – gps – it takes me off the freeway and then tells me to make a legal u-turn and back to the freeway again. it stops me at an empty lot and announces ‘you have arrived’. it takes me out into unmarked territory(at least on the gps screen) in which just my arrow floats around over nothing. it show me driving in the fields about 30 yards from the highway (that I actually am still driving on). it tells me my destination is within 500 feet which is across the river from me while i sit at a dead end no bridge parking lot. it drives my wife absolutely crazy and gives me a giggle every once in a while just to see where the journey takes me.

I don’t know why but this storyline is getting cuter each day.xxx

Well, there are the roads in the Midwest.

Well Snoop just keep walking west. If you run into the Pacific ocean at Point Reyes you’ve gone 15 miles too far.

I used to think the same way when I was little, only it was more with state borders than meridians.

@peterhuppertz

That’s the problem. When asked by reporters so many of these idiots say that they could see they were going to drive into the water but the GPS said that was the direction to go in so they were just following directions. It’s a lack of common sense. It’s one thing when you don’t know where you’re going to end up at an empty lot or a DOT sand dump/salt bunker and say I was just following directions. It’s another to see following directions is going to put you in the water or a ditch, or worse and say that.

Snoopy, look for a line with an arrow marked “Petaluma!”

Seriously: some cities in Japan have longitudinal lines (140 East in particular) marked on the ground.