Take a look:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/
I wonder if that map engine might be adaptable to a C&F WorldNet thing.
Dale
We should be able to map things as long as we have the location. Just map by lat/long instead of zipcode.
What do you want to map? Set up a form, get the location, put all stats into an Excel or other spreadsheet, export as .csv (Comma Separated Values) file, and email it to me and I’ll give it a shot.
Cheers,
Bill “Serpent” Whedon
Serpent Music
http://www.serpentmusic.com
Are you thinking o doing a one-time survey or would it be a recurrent type of thing? Or am I perhaps misreading your intent entirely?
Last year I propose on this forum that it might be nice to have a map that could show where everybody on this board lives. Just to show the geographic scope of us whistlers.
I think at the time EricT said he might take it on but time and circumstances the situation just faded away. Dale thought that is might be a good idea at the time,and had already thought of it also. Obviously Dale is still thinking of it.
We might have a greater global reach than any nation on earth – influence – well that might a little different.
MarkB
Wind Sewer, down wind of the world’s largest loosely regulated incinerator in Detroit.
[ This Message was edited by: MarkB on 2002-09-13 09:45 ]
Is the “other” beverage Sweet Tea?
Around here it’s not “pop” or “soda”.
It’s “Coke”. It doesn’t matter if it’s Sprite or DrPepper or Pepsi, it’s still a “coke”.
So, there’s your answer. It’s not “soda” or “pop”.
It’s just “coke”.
Why don’t we do a similar survey mapping where people use the terms “tin whistle”, “penny whistle”, “Irish whistle”, “Celtic whistle”, etc.?
I think Dale’s trying to publish his own “Dale Wisely Whistle Atlas”.
Features:
- Extra large maps so you won’t have to squint!
- No nonsense non-political count of whistlers in all countries!
- Perfectly pinpointed location of every C&F board member!
- Perfectly pinpointed locations of whistles by brand!
- Limited edition copies include Special WPS Module (Whistle Positioning System) so you’ll easily find a whistle friend!
I thought we already sort of had a C & F geography map thing…I can’t remember where it is, but I know I put my info in, and a bunch of other people did, a few months ago.
As to soda and pop, I grew up in Wisconsin and will always say “soda.” But I spent a couple of years in Texas and down there, like Sam, everyone I met said “coke.” I was so thrown at first…they’d always say “do you want a Coke?” and I’d thank them politely and say “No, thank you, I don’t drink Coke.” Then they’d say “We have Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, 7-Up..” and I finally caught on they were meaning “soda”!
Yeah I remember that thing too Cees but I think it was more like a guestbook…it didn’t have any graphical component that I could see.
Oh, was that it? I remember putting my info in and seeing there was a thing to click on and see where other people were but it wasn’t working or was too slow at the time, so I never went back to see what all it was.
Guestbook makes sense, I think I do remember seeing that term…
On 2002-09-13 11:02, Cees wrote:
I thought we already sort of had a C & F geography map thing…I can’t remember where it is, but I know I put my info in, and a bunch of other people did, a few months ago.As to soda and pop, I grew up in Wisconsin and will always say “soda.” But I spent a couple of years in Texas and down there, like Sam, everyone I met said “coke.” I was so thrown at first…they’d always say “do you want a Coke?” and I’d thank them politely and say “No, thank you, I don’t drink Coke.” Then they’d say “We have Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, 7-Up..” and I finally caught on they were meaning “soda”!
I think we all put in our info but the map is yet to be introduced.
The soda and pop thing reminded me of one time when a couple from MD came to visit and I asked if they would like some pop and they thought I was offering pot and they declined.
Ha Ha. It took a few minuites for me to realize what they thought I had said. Ha Ha.
We have grass here but it’s the kind the cows eat not the kind that is smoked.
- Limited edition copies include Special WPS Module (Whistle Positioning System) so you’ll easily find a whistle friend!
Have to be careful here, though, that the WPS errs by a few feet, so that no one can drop a missle-launched plug directly down the barrel of our whistles!
It always was Coke growing up around here but since so many brands came out, I don’t think there is a standard anymore here in East Bay, Calif.
In fact, I never heard anyone call them sodas or pops growing up in Martinez, Cal. Coke or the actual name of the drink.
I thot the whole Coke Classic thing was a huge marketing blunder because they took a very simple thing and wrecked it.
It is definitely called pop around here. When I was living in the Philippines, however, it was called softdrinks by the Filipinos, while the Americans living there said “Cokes” (some of the Californians said soda, which to those from where I was from meant bicarbonate of soda). My great-grandfather, from Western Oklahoma, said sodapop.
On 2002-09-13 12:31, The Weekenders wrote:
It always was Coke growing up around here but since so many brands came out, I don’t think there is a standard anymore here in East Bay, Calif.In fact, I never heard anyone call them sodas or pops growing up in Martinez, Cal. Coke or the actual name of the drink.
I thot the whole Coke Classic thing was a huge marketing blunder because they took a very simple thing and wrecked it.
This reminds me of a few years ago, when David Letterman was taping his show in San Francisco for a week. One of his guests, Tom Hanks, is a local boy (grew up in Oakland), and he was getting huge, ridiculous bursts of laughter and applause by throwing out random and obscure local references to the Bay Area audience, along the lines of “Hey folks, how about that Caldecott Tunnel!”
He actually used this one:
“And around here we call it Coke, not ‘pop’ or ‘soda’!”
HEY, WAIT JUST A GOLDARN MINUTE!
I just figured it out - its the mapping thing, right? OK, so I ain’t too swift early in the morning.
Nevertheless, WHY would the Undisputed want a map of where we all are? I don’t want to sound too paranoid, here, just think how valuable something like that would be to certian space folks who have an interest in whistles.
Just a coincidence? I think NOT!
And we have been bragging on what whistles we own!!! Sooooo someone – a person – has been keeping a very quiet inventory --hmmmmm.
Dale how much information do have on us and why now a map. Or is there some scientific reasoning on the concentration of high end whistles and the Earth’s rotation and the Crystal People?
Inquiring minds want to know!
MarkB
Cees - Saw you post on Texans saying “coke” to mean any kind of carbonated beverage. George W has expanded this license to the realm of science. Yesterday he spoke of the nuc u ler threat. Apparently the threat is so horrible, it is better not to even say it. Poor fella.
Nevertheless, WHY would the Undisputed want a map of where we all are? I don’t want to sound too paranoid, here, just think how valuable something like that would be to certian space folks who have an interest in whistles.
Just a coincidence? I think NOT!
Well somebody has to give direction for the Black Helicopters!
And gogo, Hanks seems and acts so familiar to me. I saw him that nite and was laughing along with the coke reference. I have a friend who actually looks like him and whenever I’d go over he’d offer me a “Coke”, but for some reason his mother always bought Double Cola, which i thot was weird (musta been cheeper)… Just the classic thing in the glass bottles for me at that age (early 60s). If you want to get obscure, find out what happened to TAB!!
My stepmother was hooked on it. It just…disappeared. Is Diet-Rite Cola still around???