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Monday, April 6, 2015

Rio de Janeiro Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag




Geographic Latitude-Longidue Flag for Durango City Mexico




Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag for Carnduff, Canada




Central Washington DC Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag

This flag covers the area of the White House, Mall, and US Capitol.


Paris Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag




Central Moscow Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag




Berlin Geographic Latitude Longitude Flag




New Delhi Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag






London Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag


Most of London is at 0 Degrees West, 51 Degrees North

Since London mostly lies at 51 Degrees North the star colours are blue and red, as blue represents five and red one.


Amazingly the London City Geographic Flag coincidentally uses the colours of of the nation flag: red, white and blue but in a muchly different pattern.

A flag for the wee side of London that resides in the Eastern Hemisphere at 00 Degrees East, 51 Degrees North. 


Easter Island/Rapanui Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag


The Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag for Easter Island/Rapanui uses the colours red, white, and pink.  The stars on along the right indicate it is in the Western Hemisphere, also since they are upside down this place is in the Southern Hemisphere. 

Since it is Western Hemisphere Geographic Flag the tribar is to read left to right.  Red represents one, white zero, and pink nine; thus the longitude is 109 Degrees West.

Since this place is in the Southern Hemisphere the colours are to be read upwards.  Thus orange represents two and purple represents seven, making it 27 Degrees South. 


Sydney Australia Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag

By pure coincidence the Sydney Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag bears a resemblance to the flag of Mongolia.  The upside down stars on the right fly end of the flag indicate that is in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres.  Since yellow is coded to three, the two yellow stars indicate 33 Degrees South. 

The red, blue, red tribar is to be read from right to left since the stars on on the right.  Red represents one and blue represents five, thus the tribars represents 151 Degrees East.


Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag of Mecca

Since Mecca lies at 21 Degrees North is has an orange and red star.  The stars are pointing upwards further indicating that it is in the Northern Hemisphere.  Also since Mecca is in the Eastern Hemisphere the stars are aligned on the left. 

As Mecca lies at 38 Degrees East is has tribar of black, yellow, and white. 


Rome Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag


The Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag of Rome is a tribar of orange, red, and white.  It also has stars of green and red.


Jerusalem Latitude-Longitude Flag


The Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag of Jerusalem uses the colours green, yellow, white, and red.  It represents the longitude of 34 Degrees East, and 31 Degrees North.



Los Angeles Latitude-Longitude Flag

The Los Angeles Latitude Longitude Flag for 118 Degrees West, 34 Degrees North.












New York City's Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flags

Since NYC lies on 10s line the second white star is understood and not necessary
Geographic Latitude-Longitude flags are apolitical flags that convey information.  They represent latitude and longitude and can be flown anywhere on the planet.

New York City just happens to lie on two degrees, on the 73rd and 74th Western line of longitude.  Thus NYC can fly two flags.  One dividing spot in Lower Manhattan is along Broadway and Broome Street.  For the record all of Staten Island flies the same flag with a green fly, as does the Statue of Liberty.  And the most of the Brooklyn Bridge flies the yellow fly except for the entrance on Manhattan's side.  Since all of NYC lies along the 40 Degrees North they both have a green and white star. 


 NYC's East Side flag has a yellow fly.  All of Queens, the Bronx, and most of Brooklyn plus Manhattan can fly this flag. 
 NYC's West Side Latitude-Longitude flag has green fly.  All of Staten Island and just the western nibble of Manhattan plus the Brooklyn can fly this flag.











International Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flags



International Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flags are a type of geographic flag.  The designs are coded to latitude and longitude.  These flags are non-political and scientific in orientation, but any nation can fly any of these flags.  The three bars represent longitude while the stars represent latitude.  Each colour represents a number:

(0) zero is represented white
(1) one is represented red
(2) two is represented by orange
(3) three is represented by yellow
(4) four is represented by green
(5) five is represented by blue
(6) six is represented by indigo
(7) seven is represented by purple
(8) eight is represented by black
(9) nine is represented by pink
(#?) unknown is represented by grey


Latitude is represented by the two stars and is read according to which hemisphere they represent.  In the Northern Hemisphere the stars point upwards and are read downwards, but for Southern Hemisphere flags, the stars point downwards and are read upwards.
 
Longitude is represented by the three vertical tribars.  In the Eastern Hemisphere the colours are read left to right.  An easy way to remember is that popular Eastern Alphabets in the Eastern Hemisphere use this orientation like Hebrew, Arabic, and vertical Chinese/Japanese. But in the Western Hemisphere colours are read right to left.  Likewise languages that use the Western Roman-Italian Alphabet read left to right, and dominate the Western Hemisphere.

Below is a selected example of three cities with their Geographic Latitude-Longitude flags: Bangkok, Singapore, and Can Tho City.  


Sunday, April 5, 2015

Milwaukee Police Department Badge




The Milwaukee Police Department has typical police badge that incorporates symbols of the city.  Here Chief Flynn wears that badge, and exhibits professionalism with passion.








Saturday, April 4, 2015

Pizza Planet Logo from Toy Story - 1995


In 1995 Pizza Planet came to life on the big screen as one setting in Toy Story. Of vexillological note is the Pizza Planet logo or badge.  It consists of pepperoni pizza with a ring around it, as if it were Saturn.







Aliens made specifically for Pizza Planet, this can be deduced since they have a Pizza Planet logo on their chest.
Pizza Planet also like any good institution puts is pizza logo on its cups.
At the center of every Pizza Planet is a video arcade.  You can see the Pizza Planet with it's delicious ring of sauces.  Rumor has it that Pizza the Hut from Spaceballs came from this planet.
In the original version the Toyota delivery pizza truck actually spelled out "TOY" to honor toy story, but this was considered too tacky.  Also note back in the mid 90s and 80s pizza delivery places used to own their own fleet of cars.  But this practice eventually went to the wayside as to protect commanding officers in Pizza Corps. 







Flags in Boxtrolls 2014

Laika does it again, the Boxtrolls is cinematic sculpture at its finest.  More working art rather than plain old still life art.  It is mesh all four greats: painting, music, theater, and writing.  It has a vivid pallet of artistic colours, friendly musical enchantment, talented theater, and good old fashioned storytelling.

Its title plays on the ego's judgmental tendencies to put people or others in boxes.  Sure there is a fine line between expanding your shores and trespassing where you don't belong, Laika pushes those buttons elegantly as did Rudolph in 1964.

Of vexillological note are the town's livery of Cheeseridge which is pastel purple and caramel white.  The movie is pleasing to the senses underscored with a charming story.  Family fun for all, and surely a delicious cream pie for cynical critics of all ages.

Perhaps the only complaint about this movie was the deleted sequence of the proper troll to cut the cheese. 




Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Scotland-England Equal Latitude Flag



The Scotland-England Equal Latitude flag can be flown anywhere in the United Kingdom where the main bodies of Scotland and England are parallel to each other.  Scotland is strongly associated with the North while England is associated with the South.  But at a certain latitude of nearly One Degrees from 54 Degrees 38 Minutes North to 55 Degrees 48 Minutes North, Scotland and England are aligned eye to eye. England is north of Scotland as Scotland is south of England.

Thus the cities of Carlisle, Portpatrick, and Londonderry can fly this geographic flag.  Note that a few cities are set on the boarder, like Belfast.  In Canada the city of Athabasca, Alberta is also found in this area. 

The Scotland-England Equal Latitude flag is basically quartered into four areas.  The upper fly and lower hoist quarters show English flag dominance, but the upper hoist and lower fly show Scottish flag dominance.  The English Red Cross is given a bit extra area, but to balance the equation the Scottish flag's bend has complete dominance over the coveted center spot.



Sunday, March 29, 2015

United Kingdom States Flag

The United Kingdom States flag is a geographic flag.  It represents the latitudes where the US and UK are parallel to each other.  The United States as the prodigal son of the UK, officially became parallel to the UK in 1959, with the entry of Alaska as the 49th state.  Note that the southern portion of Alaska is parallel to both Scotland and England. 

Subsequently the Alaskan Star field of 49 stars is in the canton.  The elements of the UK flag are also modified such that one sinister bend of St. Patrick's cross is fully exposed.  Likewise a full 1/8th of English white is allowed to express its self twice in a boomerang pattern.

1959 was a watershed year for these nations.  Essentially the UK and US returned to a fully charmed and healthy familial relationship, loving but full of the proper jokes and pokes.  The ugliness and bitterness of the 1776 colonial rebellion became a fully healed scar, leaving a charmed tattoo upon the hearts and minds of the British and American alike.

Subsequently the British and American waltz towards a free and open future heralded and end to draconian manipulative empires and egos at the end of the 20th century, from within and beyond.




The Kiwaussie Flag


The Kiwaussie Flag is a geographic flag.  It is to be flown anywhere in Australia or New Zealand where they are at equal latitude.  Thus the second biggest island of Australia and second biggest island of New Zealand can fly this flag anywhere, since they are at parallel latitudes.   Coincidentally the second biggest island of Australia is a south island, while the second biggest of New Zealand is the north Island.  

Both capital cities can fly this flag since both are parallel to each other. It's a flag to be flown from Adelaide to Auckland, with Melbourne in the middle.