Conquercise

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um 23 Mar 5:51pm, 23 Mar 2024 8,293 posts	0 um Not even for the pretty pattern? And the 2,500 notifications of 'you have made your first trip to somewhere over the Atlantic' Followed by a similar number of 'you know own a spot of the Atlantic' Followed by 2000 'you have made your first trip to somewhere frozen in Canada' and a similar number of ownership notifications. Have fun!
Sigh 23 Mar 5:58pm, 23 Mar 2024 26,162 posts	0 Sigh It's taken me a couple of hours to sort the in-flight WiFi out
ChrisHB 23 Mar 5:59pm, 23 Mar 2024 23,010 posts	0 ChrisHB get a million zones if you go close enough to the North Pole!
Sigh 6 Apr 10:14pm, 6 Apr 2024 26,178 posts	0 Sigh Had to be done:
Evan 6 Apr 10:20pm, 6 Apr 2024 213 posts	0 Evan Here for the eclipse?
Sigh 6 Apr 10:38pm, 6 Apr 2024 26,179 posts	0 Sigh No, flying home tonight. Didn't know about the eclipse until we were here, and daughter is back at school on Monday.
Forrest Jooligan 7 Apr 3:46pm, 7 Apr 2024 445 posts	0 Forrest Jooligan Anyone know how many squares there are in England, Wales & Scotland respectively?
Cerrertonia 7 Apr 4:05pm, 7 Apr 2024 20,862 posts	0 Cerrertonia I suspect the exact answer probably depends on where you draw the coastline - certainly some of us have zones which are shown as being in the sea on the map. A very rough calculation - entirely possible I've messed up the arithmetic somewhere. England is 130,279 km². A conquercise zone is 0.02 x 0.02 degrees of latitude and longitude Latitude: 1 deg = 110.574 km Longitude: 1 deg = 111.320cos(latitude) km, so let's call that 111.2 x 0.6 = 68km So the area of a conquercise zone at UK latitude is (110/50) (68/50) = approx 3km2 130279 / 3 = roughly 45 000? Suspect the real figure is higher because of the relatively long coastline. If I haven't messed up the calculation, Wales 21,218km2 would be maybe 7500 and Scotland 77910km2, around 25000 (zones are smaller in Scotland, so a bit higher).
Forrest Jooligan 8 Apr 10:39am, 8 Apr 2024 447 posts	0 Forrest Jooligan Thanks for that analysis Cerrertonia Given your excellent BoE calculations, with c.80,000 zones on the mainland we've all got a long way to go before we exhaust the possibility of acquiring new zones. Only 9 people have even managed the equivalent of Wales so far!
Cerrertonia 8 Apr 10:51am, 8 Apr 2024 20,864 posts	0 Cerrertonia I picked up a number of previously unexplored zones a couple of weekends ago, only a few miles from home (i.e. no previous explorers). I suspect the Yorkshire Dales gets rather more running, walking and/or cycling visitors than say Northumberland or the North Pennines. So I would think there are still probably thousands of UK zones that have not yet been explored. Didn't those get shown as cakes on the map when the game started?