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OT: The center of a landmass
Jakob Norstedt-Moberg 2009-Jul-03 19:37:00
Does anybody know a modern (e.g. google maps based) tool to compute the center of a landmass like a country. The center could be defined in many ways (e.g. depending on how to treat the lakes and also depending on the selected map projection) but I would like to find at least one legitime way to calculate it.
Background:
The center of Sweden is said to be located at "Flataklacken" west of the town Sundsvall. This was estimated about 70 years ago by balancing a rigid cut-out map of Sweden on a needle to find its center of gravity. There must be better ways today, but how?
Jakob