Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 29, 2006 at 18:58:21 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: GPS posted by Adam Quinan on September 29, 2006 at 11:07:04:
According to its Help screens, Google Earth does accept latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes and decimal minutes. You should put a - sign in front of southerly latitudes or westerly longitudes.
Google Earth seems very catholic in what it will accept.
49 52 37.26N 8 40 1.75E is a dreadful hybrid, but pasting that string (without the angle brackets) into the navigation bar takes you to the Wedding Tower in Darmstadt.
I love Google Earth. It's a beautifully implemented program (certainly on the Mac- I presume it's equally good on a Windows machine) and wastes hours in the most wonderfully productive way. Sadly, its coverage of the Lake District isn't that good yet- its Cumbria database only contains low rez images as yet.
You can get high rez images by going to Windows Local Live, which will open at a default location (Hollywood, where else?) and in the navigation bar, enter "Bowness, UK" (without the quotes) and then move around to taste. You can get a double view of the Windermere Ferry, which is what you get when you stitch together a sat image mosaic...
As an additional goodie, if you go to the webcam of the Freshwater Biological Association, http://www.fba.org.uk/webcam01.html, you can get a good, large, fast updating image looking across Windermere towards Bowness, and see the ferry at work, with a lovely Ransomish view of the opposite shore with bushy top trees galore. Warning- I think that, like Google Earth and Windows Local Live, this requires a broadband connection.
I'm not sure how to post two links so if you want to go there, you'll have to cut and paste the url into a browser.