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[Edding3000]

Hi cameni can you give me a picture of:

 51°34'34.05"N
  4°12'33.58"O

Facing: NNE

I'm curious if the canal is visible here, or if it's all water, or whatever!
Greetz,
Mischa

[cameni]

51°34'34.05"N
  4°12'33.58"O

Facing: NNE

I'm curious if the canal is visible here, or if it's all water, or whatever!

If "O" in longitude is East. I've included Google maps there for reference.

[Edding3000]

51°34'34.05"N
  4°12'33.58"E

Is correct indeed. The picture however is 4°12'33.58"West!

[cameni]

51°34'34.05"N
  4°12'33.58"E

Is correct indeed. The picture however is 4°12'33.58"West!

Ah, true. I said east but left "O" there and parser defaults to west/north when it fails to recognize the suffix. And that's why I'm asking people to specify the location also by name, for a double check

Anyways, west Netherlands are below the sea level and these areas aren't currently excluded from ocean coverage. Without artificial dikes and no Moses either, it wouldn't be correct to keep the waters from flooding the plains in these locations, so I guess this gets "fixed" in the civilization vector layer.



Or else, it's year 2500 and the dikes failed already

[Grind and Click]

Lets see what my farm looks like..alwaysalwaysalways wanted to do this in a game.

54.732938 N

4.429318 E

facing NE, but if you see a large hill in the distance to the north please snap that too.

Ace. Thanks.

[cameni]

54.732938 N
4.429318 E

Those coordinates throw me in the middle of the sea between UK and Denmark.
q=54.732938+N,+4.429318+E

[Grind and Click]

Sorry i just took what google gave me, maybe it shouldnt be N and E im not sure.

Here it is in google maps anyway.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=54.733339,-4.42893&num=1&t=h&sll=54.800685,3.823242&sspn=18.897522,38.71582&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=54.73343,-4.428756&spn=0.002986,0.009645&z=17

[cameni]

Yes it should be west (wrt Greenwich).

54.732938 N
4.429318 W

[Grind and Click]

Ha. I have to say i dont recognise any of the close terrain, hill and shape wise in the immediate picture but the larger hill to the left of centre is CairnsMore, it had a HE 111 crash into it in WW2 and several other aircraft includiong a Tornado.

This engine is really something. Thanks for grabbing that for me.  

[Grind and Click]

56.521733 N

4.264941 W

Facing west? Last, promise.

[cameni]

56.521733 N
4.264941 W

Facing west? Last, promise.

[Grind and Click]

Need i say more.

I mean, if you click page up and page down its like its taken from the exact spot, and fits perfectly.

Thats a Munro in Scotland called "Meall nan Tarmachan" and i climbed it a couple of weeks ago.

This is me on the first smaller peak just to the SE of the main peak.

http://flic.kr/p/9t95x8

Will you be looking to how the engine places trees and things and colours the terrain from rock to grass?

As if its analysed from google map images somehow.

[cameni]

We'll be running algorithm that analyses the colors obtained from Blue Marble data and deduces land type using some probabilistic models. It should be followed by another algo supposed to simulate growth of forests in an uncontrolled environment.

[Grind and Click]

Well it doesnt get better than that, even roads and road types, from farm track to motorway?

Ever thought that you could sell this to Google? Google Earth 2, only i know it wouldnt be dead on, but maybe google could be the ones that make it precise enough.

Just climbed another Munro.

56.661288 N

4.903951 W

Facing south? Im being cheeky now i know.  

[cameni]

56.661288 N
4.903951 W

Facing south

From somewhere down on the road:


I doubt it would work for Google; the major problems are the need to re-project the map data, hardware demands ...