Re: Sundials and Google Maps

[Alexei Pace]

The world map can be made also such that it is noon on the countries over
which the shadow passes.

Alexei

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Phil Walker <phil.wal...@sunandshadows.net
> wrote:

>  Hi Brad,
>
> Here is a photo of one of my dials I bought from Helios, Wiesbaden,
> Germany,  an (almost) universal equatorial dial incorporating a map
> projection on the dialplate.
>
> Here is the page in my website:
> http://www.sundial.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/JACKTILE.HTM. The photo is at the
> bottom of  the page.
>
> Cheers,
> Phil Walker
>
>
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> *From:* Brad Lufkin <bradley.luf...@gmail.com>
> *To:* Sundial Mailing List <sundial@uni-koeln.de>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:22 AM
> *Subject:* Sundials and Google Maps
>
> I've incorporated Google Maps into an Oughtred dial. As you know, the
> Oughtred dial can be drawn on any azimuthal map projection (Oughtred himself
> chose the Stereographic). Since the dial is drawn on a map, it's possible to
> drawn Earth features such as countries as part of the dial. What I've done
> (and I'm pretty sure this is new) is incorporate the ability to download and
> use Google Maps in the dial. The technique works with geographic dials as
> well.
> I tried to send an example to the SML but the image is 90KB+ so will not
> pass the size filter. I'd be happy to send the diagram to whomever is
> interested.
> Brad
>
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