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I agree with DavidGrundler's changelog, that many times are wrong. What if things are listed in terms of general mileage rather than time? I think that's a lot more useful, and a bit less disputable. For example I just used google maps to find the distance from "davis, california" to "los angeles, california". 396 miles, 5 hours 57 minutes. Interestingly enough it starts on 5th Street, and ends at Broadway and Tom Bradley Blvd in LA. Random locations, but it's enough to change the page to Los Angeles: ~400 miles. Just throw a disclaimer at the top of the page (This is general mileage calculated using Google Maps or something, and not to any specific area/address). It also would only take 10 minutes with google maps or mapquest or whatever you like to do. Just throwing it out here so that it's not a drastic change. -ES
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Yes. Miles would be good. I know, for example, that it takes almost 6.5 hours to get to Anaheim if you do not stop and drive the limit. San Diego would be closer to 8 hours. —DavidGrundler
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When using Yahoo! Maps, when you only put a city with no street location, it automatically selects the exact center of the town as the software has determined. I have no idea how they determine where the center of the city is, and often when using two different websites you end up with two different town centers, but there you go. —ElleWeber
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Nearly every municipality has two center points, three if you add the common unofficial town hall address. There is a geographic center of area used for some demographic reasons and another, sometimes overlapping point that is the town center (which is also sometimes the cornerstone of the town hall). There's almost always a marker of some sort there, and if it isn't the cornerstone and you snoop around, you'll often find a brass rod (sometimes with a ring) or a plaque set into the ground. Hopefully they are still placing those in this era of GPSes, as they are fun to hunt for. Regardless, the distance is likely to fall within a pretty good break point... LA is between 120 and 500 miles (or whatever the category winds up being). I'd say that splitting them up in cardinal directions (possibly two for North and South) would be nice as well... as Davis/Sacramento happens to have major roads in each of those directions (and if you're heading North, a leg of the trip over to Sacto is pretty common). Regardless, all that is when somebody goes through and adds enough to be worth it to split it up and rework it. —jw
