I think the only accurate means for doing this would be for you to
trace the grid onto the floors and walls with either a large
permanent marker or, even better, industrial grade, oil-based paint
to prevent it rubbing or flaking away during your daily routines.
Also, it's not enough to just measure the ends and trace string
between them. You're bound to introduce slight errors when actually
making the marks. These errors, although small to begin with, can
escalate to devastating proportions as the project progresses. You'll
have to make regular, incremental measurements progressing from your
0,0 corner. The smaller the increments, the higher the accuracy.
Please send us photos when you've finished tracing the grid. I'd
really like to see it.
On 31.1.2008, at 22:58, Will King wrote:
Mike
After asking myself why;-) here's a quick and dirty method.
First measure the lengths of your walls with tape or disto. Lets
say your room is 10 metres by 5 metres. Then divide this into
theoretical grid squares of your choosing ie 1 metre squares.
Pick a corner and call this 0.000, 0.000 (this is your bottom left
of your living room "grid" if you drew it on paper). Diagonally
across (ie top right corner) from this coordinate is 10.000,
5.000. You can then get any coordinate in the room from this grid.
To get a z level (elevation) measure up from your floor and "set a
level" one metre or whatever up, mark it with pencil etc.
Will
On Jan 31, 2008 10:24 PM, Mike Liebhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm thinking of mapping my living room. Does anyone have any
sugggestions How should I convert the location of furniture,
lamps, into location coordinates? I think I know how to do x and
y, but z is a problem, though highly useful for finding things like
books.
- mike
John Handelaar wrote:
On Jan 31, 2008 9:34 PM, Paul Harwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, Just a lazy question from a novice geowanker I suppose...but
it might save me an evenings surfing though if you can help. I
have googled a bit, with a few solutions... but does anyone have
a perl script (or a site) to hand, to do Lat Long conversions to
X Y? I have UK postcode/outcode/location database that I want to
convert from L Lo to X Y.
Again, "X Y" doesn't seem to mean anything specific, but a number
of useful tools and code samples, including stuff relating to OSGB
grid refs, can be found here: http://www.nearby.org.uk/
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