UPDATE: No fewer than 12 people visited after this blog entry, coming from the Google Answers link. It looks like a game show is asking how far the Dublin Spire is from the Statue of Liberty.
I NEVER EXPECTED to see my blog cited as a geographic point of reference but one of the geotagged photos I uploaded proved important when a reader asked "How many air kilometres is it from the spire dublin to the statue of liberty new york?" Sure, they could have asked Gavin Sheridan who is spending a few days in NYC at the moment. For the record, I put the Spire in Dublin at N53.21 W06.15 and we know the Lady stands tall at N40.41 W74.01. To calculate the distances, you might use an online calculator.
Export 911 has a good online distance calculator. If you input the above geodetic value for the Spire and the Lady the calculator you will discover that The Spire is approximately 5124km from the Statue of Liberty.
Number crunching from palitoy-ga. Dublin Spire photo by IrishEyes.
Bernie Goldbach -- "Reorienting Google Maps"
Gavin Sheridan -- "To New York"
