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.
I'll give google a try then
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
I was planning on walking the perimeter of the buildings, but with
arthritis walking isn't really my thing. 8-( Or perhaps getting the
lat/long of one or two corners of a building and then trying to
extrapolate orientation and wall sizes from public information. Your
way is much better!
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.) :-)
"surveying oneself manually" -- I think I got your meaning but it
sounds illegal in a Southern state 8-)
Ima
Curt.
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