Ima Sudonim wrote:
Oh, DC scenery, one of the many things i'd like to do if I ever get around to it (health permitting) 8-) I even got a gps to plot buildings' locations... just was never able to do anything.
For what ever it's worth, Google maps seems to do a surprisingly good job of giving up lat/lon coordinates of objects. You have to be a little careful of the way urls get cached and delayed in a web environment, but if you get a link to the current image, you can easily read the lat/lon coordinates out of the link. Just click on the object to make sure it is centered.
With a hand held gps, you aren't going to ever get to stand at the center of the roof (well maybe rarely) so google has a lot of advantages and might even be more accurate than doing the surveying yourself manually. (The wording of that last phrase didn't come out very well on my first attempt, but I think the final edit is slightly less ambiguous.) :-)
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