Google Earth

"Mike Lindsay" wrote in message
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If you though Google maps were fun, try Google Earth. It often has
higher resolution than the maps and you can tilt your view into 3D.
Once in 3D, pull with your mouse and then let go and you can fly
over/through the terrain.

Hands down, the best view of the world yet. Can't wait till we can
link flight sims up with it. In much of the US view you can see down
to small bush details on the ridges. Some of the rest of the world is
not so detailed.

Tim

You can already see the sailplanes at Minden. But not at our field, the
res at 52.27N 001.09 E isn't good enough. Yet.

BTW I checked the long/lat for the Greenwich Observatory, and it was out
by about 200 metres.
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Mike Lindsay


Zero longitude on the WGS84 datum is about 100m east of the line marked on
the ground at the observatory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Meridian

The point of the arrow on this map
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...=newsearch.srf
ties up fairly well with the zero longitude line on Google Earth and appears
to be pretty near 100m east of the observatory. The measurement tool is a
bit limited in it's resolution at this scale.

BTW if you convert your IGC logger file to a GPX file you can go fly your
flight again. If you're lucky enough to have good Google Earth imagery
where you're flying it's pretty realistic. This page seems to explain how
although a geek in the office wrote a script to do the conversion for me.
http://www.expandingknowledge.com/Je...htm#IGC_to_KML

Stephen