This has reminded me that I once convinced someone that road signs and SatNavs
Gave slightly different distances to London destinations because Maps were measured to that monument outside Charring Cross Station and SatNavs measured to the BT Tower.

This is why Great Portland Street is so called, because they wanted it to have the initials GPS.

With hindsight, that person was a moron for believing me.


edit: Bollocks, that particlar post isn't what reminded me, I replied to the wrong one
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 16:48, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

you might have had me, up to Great Portland Street.
Is't london measured from a stone in Trafalgar square?
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 15 Sep 2011, 16:51, Reply)

Oh, I don't know.
I did actually think the bit about it being measured to Charring Cross was true, but thinking about it that's just something my Dad told me once that I never checked out.

Given that this is the man who took me womble spotting, I probably shouldn't trust him.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 17:02, Reply)

Was the Womble in his trousers?
Although a quick Google reveals he was probably right about Charring cross.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 15 Sep 2011, 17:05, Reply)

You are right.
And I was wrong, but for good reasons: rodcorp.typepad.com/photos/variousthings/centrelondon_mileage.html
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 17:04, Reply)

Tee Hee, and I thought you were
www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/08/15/charingcross_feature.shtml

Edit: if I'd read the page and not just looked at the pictures....
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 15 Sep 2011, 17:06, Reply)