Hi there, George Patterson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 10:47 +1000, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > >>Hi there, >> >>Andrew Gorman wrote: > > >>>The easiest way to judge sizes is to take the average height of someone, say >>>5'6" and then find out the height of the roof in the building....doors are >>>all the same height,mostly, so that can be a good indicator as well. >> >>I used a photo of the IT with a 747-400 nose up near the terminal >>as reference. Its pretty rough, but airport security would not think >>too kindly if I abseiled down the front with a 50m tape just to get >>the height. Width/length is OK (google earth is your friend), but >>height remains the tricky one... :-( >> > > > The other way is if you have a photo if the side of the building (the > more perpendicular to the centre of the building the better). You can > scale (I mean resize, not abseil :-) ) the height of the building by > using the ratio of the side of the building in the photo. > > For example:- > > You have a photo with the side of the building being 2 inches high by 6 > inches wide. If you happen to know that the side of the building is 60ft > long, then the side building is 20 feet high. > > Note: You do not need to know how far you were away from the building to > do this. > > For 3:00am I think this makes sense.
:-) It makes perfect sense - I just need to get the photos, which I will be able to do when I visit NZCH this coming Friday. Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
