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.  

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Aussie Up Over Kiwi Flag

The Aussie Up Over Kiwi flag is a type of geographic flag.  It can be flown anywhere on Australia that is north of New Zealand. Almost every state of Australia can fly this flag somewhere upon its land, except the we portion detached from the mainland and the Capital Territory.

The Kiwi Double Down Under Flag - for the region of southern New Zealand

The Kiwi Double Down Under Flag is for the region of New Zealand that is south of Australia.  This is a geographic type of flag.  In the canton is the famous seven pointed Aussie star, but it has been Kiwified.  Note, no part of North Island can fly this flag and only the southern half of South Island can.

Flag for the Region of Mexico below the Lower(Upper) "El Norte" 48 US States

It's only fair that if Canada gets an All Canadian Belt Flag and the USA gets and All American Belt Flag that Mexico should have its own All Mexican Belt Flag.  This is another geographic flag for Mexico indicating when you are below the latitude of the most southern point of "El Norte".

Mexico-USA Parallel Latitude Flag

The Meixco-USA Parallel Latitude flag is a type of geographic flag.  It indicates the regions of Mexico and the USA that are at the same latitude. The flag design is based upon three flags: the US flag via stars in the canton, Mexican flag via the colours red, green and white, and the final design of the 1865 Southern US flag.  20 stars represent the 20 US and Mexican States that can see eye to eye.  For Team El Norte we have South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.  For Team El Sur de South we have both Upper and Lower California, Durango, Sonora, New Lion, Chihuahua, Sinaola, Zacatecas, Coahuila, Tamaulipas.

Canadian-USA United 48 Parallel Latitude Flag

The Canadian-USA United 48 Parallel Flag is a geographic flag.  It represents the area where Canada and the United States of America are parallel along the Lower 48 US states.  It can be flown anywhere in Canada and the USA that is in between the most southern point of Canada and most northern point of the United 48 in Minnesota.

11 US states are totally parallel to Canada's Latitude: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. 9 US states just have a thin northern slice parallel to Canada: California, Nevada, Utah, Nebraska, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Finally 5 US states are mostly parallel to Canada: New York, Michigan, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Wyoming.

Canadian Belt Flag

A flag for the Latitude of Canada north of the 48 United Continental. The colours of the flag are based upon the previous colours of the maple leaf.  Bet you didn't know that the maple leaf wasn't always red, eh? Before the adoption of the modern flag, Canada was previously represented by a yellow or green or red maple leaf.  Bet you didn't know that, eh?

All American Belt Flag

A new geographic flag for the United States - The All American Belt Flag.  The All American Belt Flag represents the latitudes of the US that are totally south of Canada and totally north of Mexico.  Meaning that this region of the US can not see it the Canadian Way nor the Mexican Way.  They have their gaze set to the USA Way.

For the record 14 states totally reside in this area and can be trusted as true core red blooded Americans: This includes Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey.  Likewise Washington, DC naturally resides in this area.

An honorable mention goes to California for it is the only state to span the entire area, and can tango toe to toe with Mexico and Canada.  Californians are the only ones who can geographically swing it like a Canadian and a Mexican.  California covers all the bases within the All American Latitude: between the most southern continental point of Canada at 41 Degrees 57 Minutes North to the northern most point in Mexico at 32 Degrees, 34 Minutes North.

Mason-Dixon Line Heritage Flag for 39 Degrees 43 Minutes North

Nearly 100 years before the outbreak of the US Civil War, a border survey between Maryland and Pennsylvania would echo across time.  This echo would serve as the semi-official demarcation between the North and South.

Little did Mr. Mason, Chuck and Mr. Dixon, Jerry know that this border established under King George III would serve as a quasi-cultural border of men and women yet to be born a century later.  These names from Oakridge-Lynch and Cockfield, England would become warped with a totally different connotation, beyond their wildest expectations.  History has a way of doing that with new ideas, a moment here, an exaggeration there.  Given enough time, it becomes established, and may even become something completely new.

It was nearly 150 years ago that the war between the US States was reaching its climactic end, so in honor of this closing act, "The Mason-Dixon Line Heritage Flag".  The Mason-Dixon flag is a mixture of a heritage and geographic flag.  Its design elements should be obvious, as a mash up of Union and Rebel flags.  The five stars on the quarters of blue represent the modern free soil states that cross the extended Mason-Dixon line: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California.  The four stars along the blue diagonal represent the four states that allowed for the wicked right of a person to own another person: Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia.  Finally the central star represents the first state of the English Colonies that would be broken in half: Virginia. Until 1863 Virgina crossed the extended Mason-Dixon line.  

Thus any state mentioned above, has legal rights to fly this flag at 39 Degrees 43 Minutes North, that's 15 in all. 
 

UN flag from Idiocracy 2006

In the "Time Masheen" ride in Idiocracy an inaccurate revisionist view of the U.N., pronounced uun, has several flags in front of the building.  History has become so distorted in this future that people actually think dinosaurs and people lived simultaneously.

Several national flags can be seen in front of the UN, including a backwards Pakistan, upside down Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South Africa, Spain, Panama, Palau, and the United States.  However at least six flags are wrongly placed that represent the powerful companies that dominate the future in the 26th century, including Carl's Jr.

Congress Flag Uniforms from Idiocracy

In the year 2505 members of US congress in the "House of Representin" can be easily identified by the state flags on the backs of their uniforms.  Apparently in the year 2505 Georgia reverted to 1956 design that featured the Confederate battle flag.  When this film was created in 2005, Georgia had already discarded use of this flag.  Nonetheless, it is good idea that congress should wear a uniform in addition to a name tag, and stripes to show how long they have been in office.


  

Courtroom Flags in Idiocracy 2006

 Idiocracy is a special mix of sci-fi, comedy, and satire.  A cryogenic experiment goes horribly wrong and accidentally sends a man from 2005 into the year 2505.  It's a mix of live action Futurama meets Beavis and Butthead. 

In this future, natural selection has started to favor the less than civil of society, fast food consumer culture and Jerry Springer types. Subsequently a man with average intelligence from 2005 is seen as pompous, effeminate, and the most intelligent person on the planet.

Notice the close up of courtroom flags that expound on certain consumer products. 

US Flag in Idiocracy - 2006

 The Distopian future is a popular genre these days, but before anyone got hungry for kids killing kids and E-Walls, there was Idiocracy.  Not so serious, Idiocracy was more a satire on the state of the human condition. 

An average Joe is sent 500 years into the future to the year 2505, where less than intelligent people have overpopulated the planet; natural selection has favored those who breed the fastest, and intelligence is no longer a factor.


The flag of the United States in the 26th Century has eleven stripes, sort of.  The six red stripes are words and logos of corporations dashed with some patriotic sayings.  The canton consists of 25 yellow stars of the Carl's Jr. logo design.

90 Degrees West Longitude Flag

The 90 Degrees West flag is composed of the colours red, blue, and white.  It can be flown anywhere along the 90th Degree of Western Longitude.  Thus the nations of Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador can fly this flag, as can Chile since this meridian passes though the Galapagos along the equator.

The specific US states that cross the 90th Western Line of Longitude include: Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  Additionally the 90th West passes directly though Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana, and the boot heel of Missouri. 

90 Degrees East Longitude Flag

The 90 Degrees East flag is another geographic flag.  It can be flown anywhere along the longitude of 90 Degrees East from Central Russia, Eastern China, Bhutan, the eastern wing of India, and Bangladesh. 

The squares represent the mathematical symbols for a 90 degree angle.  It is at this angle that the advanced study of triangles "Trig" has opened a gateway to the heavens.

The flag is composed of the colours: green, red, yellow, and black.

Central Australia Heritage Flag - Flag for a Forlorn part of Australia

Form 1927 until 1931 the state of Central Australia existed for a short time on maps.  Here is a heritage flag that commemorates its small role in history.  This flag conserves the Native Australian colours of red, black and yellow, but also utilizes the Southern Cross in a new form and keeps the Aussie Blue upright and proud.

Central Australia was the proverbial Indiana Jones state, since it was created in between WWI and WWII.  It came to life during the Calvin Coolidge's term in the US and was around for the 1929 stock market crash, and disappeared during the Herbert Hoover's administration.