[81-717]

How something shows on a screen is NOT how you measure degrees of latitude or longitude and if you really care which subway station is furthest south (which is of ZERO interest to me!) You should use proper measurements.

As long as the map is set to the default rotation with North being exactly towards the top of the screen, I fail to see why not (at least for local measurements for which the Earth's curvature can be neglected). It's at least a fairly accurate way to measure the angle between true North and the "North" on Toronto's grid.

 

[nfitz]

What I linked in the screenshot is how it displays on my screen. Kipling appears higher up on the map than Union.

How unusual - there must be some kind of rotation that you see on the image on your screen, that I don't see on mine.

This is what I see when I read your post on my screen, with Kipling lower on the map than Union, rather than higher. How does yours differ?

Correct, in which case you’ll find that Kipling is latitudinally further south. Very amateur stuff guys!

In my case, true north is up. So relative direction will work fine visually. As it does in this case.

At least on this scale. Perhaps you are thinking of the effects from the curvature of the earth? Which are not relevant for such small distances.

 

[evandyk]

Admittedly, it depends on exactly where Google has attributed "Kipling" and "Union" to, but if you right click on those labels on google maps, Union is noted at 43.646 degrees north, while Kipling is noted at 43.637 degrees north. Exhibition is at 43.636, at least where Google says the current streetcar loop is.

Each degree is worth about 111 km, so we're talking about a 10 metre difference in distance from the equator, roughly. So it really depends on where you take your measurement from for each place. But basically, they're all the same.

 

[reinventingthewheel]

Admittedly, it depends on exactly where Google has attributed "Kipling" and "Union" to, but if you right click on those labels on google maps, Union is noted at 43.646 degrees north, while Kipling is noted at 43.637 degrees north. Exhibition is at 43.636, at least where Google says the current streetcar loop is.

Each degree is worth about 111 km, so we're talking about a 10 metre difference in distance from the equator, roughly. So it really depends on where you take your measurement from for each place. But basically, they're all the same.

You’re off by one order of magnitude.

 

[max]

After all the all the ensuing discussion, I no longer view this as a "fun fact"

 

[evandyk]

I think you're right. Anyways, nice example of how a round earth doesn't translate exactly to a flat map.

 

[Mihairokov]

Cannot believe this discussion is still ongoing

 

[bearcat]

Cannot believe this discussion is still ongoing

The subway needs to be extended to Sherway Gardens (whish is south of Kipling) to resolve this definitively. It's really the only way.

 

[Cyrobyte]

The TTC needs to stop "cucking" to other cities by building subways that extend beyond Toronto (eg. the proposed Yonge subway extension)

 

[Amare]

The TTC needs to stop "cucking" to other cities by building subways that extend beyond Toronto (eg. the proposed Yonge subway extension)

It's the province (dating back from the days of Greg Sorbara and Jim Flaherty) who's had this consistent fetish of extending the subway system beyond Toronto's borders, not so much Toronto or the TTC.

I wont get into the merits of whether it's right or wrong, but let's just say the reasons are always political.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

It's the province (dating back from the days of Greg Sorbara and Jim Flaherty) who's had this consistent fetish of extending the subway system beyond Toronto's borders, not so much Toronto or the TTC.

I wont get into the merits of whether it's right or wrong, but let's just say the reasons are always political.

Just annex the 905 into the City of Toronto, and separate from the Province of Ontario to form the Province of Toronto.

 

[Steve X]

Just annex the 905 into the City of Toronto, and separate from the Province of Ontario to form the Province of Toronto.

Pretty sure that will make Doug Ford primer of Toronto while they’ll elect a new premier.

 

[Cyrobyte]

Pretty sure that will make Doug Ford primer of Toronto while they’ll elect a new premier.

The people in Vaughan and markham and Oakville etc would elect Ford to be the Premier of Toronto and we'd be back at square one

 

[rbt]

The TTC needs to stop "cucking" to other cities by building subways that extend beyond Toronto (eg. the proposed Yonge subway extension)

TTC doesn't build subways, Metrolinx does. TTC operates and maintains whatever subways Metrolinx or Toronto council provides funding for them to do so.

 

[Cyrobyte]

TTC doesn't build subways, Metrolinx does. TTC operates and maintains whatever subways Metrolinx or Toronto council provides funding for them to do so.

That’s precisely the problem. The first four subway lines were build by the TTC in Toronto. Now they are being built by metrolinx