Re: Shropshire Sundials And Google Earth
Hi, your project sounds (I am at work and do not have google earth installed, so I cannot see your map.) great, perhaps you can provide an online version of the map? Perhaps you want to read this: http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=68480#import Thomas Message: 1 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:35:48 +0100 From: Phil Walker phil.wal...@sunandshadows.net Subject: Shropshire Sundials And Google Earth To: Sundial List sundial@uni-koeln.de, Carl and Barbara Sabanski saban...@escape.ca, Eddie French efre...@jerseymail.co.uk, J P Lester john@tiscali.co.uk, nicolasever...@libero.it, Richard Mallett 100114@compuserve.com, Roger Bailey rtbai...@telus.net, Woody Sullivan \(Earthdial\) wo...@astro.washington.edu Message-ID: d03f027a6eb44af683f4ae31264e6...@pegeia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Back in December, Roger Bailey set us a challenge for 2009, to populate a sundial database and display the details using Google Earth. I rose to the challenge, in a small way, and here is the result on my website: www.shropshire-sundials.net I hope you to enjoy it. Roger also showed us how to start a sundial trail using Google Earth and in a later post more ideas on how to add content to the KML file. My approach was somewhat different, I decided to work directly with the KML language. KML stands for Keyhole Markup Language and is a simple, human-readable format used by Google Earth and now by other Earth browsers like Microsoft Virtual Earth and NASA WorldWind. KML 2.2 is now an international standard , located at www.opengeospatial.org. To give you an idea of what KML is like, here is a short snippet: line ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'? 1 kml xmlns='http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2' 2 Placemark 3 nameLa Nef de Tavel/name 4 description 5 La Nef Solaire was built in 1993 at a motorway stop near Tavel in the Midi of France. 6 Designed by sculptor Odile Mir and well-known gnomoniste Denis Savoie, this is one of the largest and interesting dials in the world 7. /description 8 Point 9 coordinates4.70031,44.0013/coordinates 10 /Point 11 /Placemark 12 /kml 13 Type it into your text editor, such as Notepad, save the file as La Nef de Tavel.kml and then click on the KML file to open up Google Earth and see the aerial view of the huge, incredible Nef de Tavel..The KML text is quite simple to understand.The lines 1 and 2 show that this is a KML version 2.2 file, itself a version of XML. The Placemark beginning and end tags, line 3 and line 12, enclose the mininum information for a placemark, a name for the location, line 4, a description, in
RE: Shropshire Sundials And Google Earth [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Hi Thomas, You might not get the complete experience, but you can see Phil's locations and photos using Google Maps. Go to Google Maps, http://maps.google.com An in the Search Maps bar paste the URL, http://www.shropshiredials.net/doc.kml Hope this helps. Cheers Hank de Wit Adelaide, Australia -Original Message- From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Thomas Steiner Sent: Wednesday, 1 April 2009 17:46 To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Shropshire Sundials And Google Earth Hi, your project sounds (I am at work and do not have google earth installed, so I cannot see your map.) great, perhaps you can provide an online version of the map? Perhaps you want to read this: http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=68480#import Thomas Message: 1 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:35:48 +0100 From: Phil Walker phil.wal...@sunandshadows.net Subject: Shropshire Sundials And Google Earth To: Sundial List sundial@uni-koeln.de, Carl and Barbara Sabanski saban...@escape.ca, Eddie French efre...@jerseymail.co.uk, J P Lester john@tiscali.co.uk, nicolasever...@libero.it, Richard Mallett 100114@compuserve.com, Roger Bailey rtbai...@telus.net, Woody Sullivan \(Earthdial\) wo...@astro.washington.edu Message-ID: d03f027a6eb44af683f4ae31264e6...@pegeia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Back in December, Roger Bailey set us a challenge for 2009, to populate a sundial database and display the details using Google Earth. I rose to the challenge, in a small way, and here is the result on my website: www.shropshire-sundials.net I hope you to enjoy it. Roger also showed us how to start a sundial trail using Google Earth and in a later post more ideas on how to add content to the KML file. My approach was somewhat different, I decided to work directly with the KML language. KML stands for Keyhole Markup Language and is a simple, human-readable format used by Google Earth and now by other Earth browsers like Microsoft Virtual Earth and NASA WorldWind. KML 2.2 is now an international standard , located at www.opengeospatial.org. To give you an idea of what KML is like, here is a short snippet: line ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'? 1 kml xmlns='http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2' 2 Placemark 3 nameLa Nef de Tavel/name 4 description 5 La Nef Solaire was built in 1993 at a motorway stop near Tavel in the Midi of France. 6 Designed by sculptor Odile Mir and well-known gnomoniste Denis Savoie, this is one of the largest and interesting dials in the world 7. /description 8 Point 9 coordinates4.70031,44.0013/coordinates 10 /Point 11 /Placemark 12 /kml
Info on a new sundial
Hello People! I just got a strange little sundial, its a coin, elliptical, about 1 by 1 3/8, apparently made of sterling silver. There is a hole through the coin at the sun marker, I assume for some sort of gnomon to be inserted. Across the top seems to be the months, and on the back it looks like a map of Europe with some city markings. http://www.yellott.com/sun/sun1.JPG http://www.yellott.com/sun/sun2.JPG I'd like to know how to use it, anyone know? I know being so small it will not be very accurate, especially since I am in the states (approx 31 degrees). Any help appreciated, Thanks! Phil Yellott --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
Re: Info on a new sundial
It looks like it may have been a freebie (langiappe) given at a French sundial society meeting. Fun sundial! This is a model of what was a fairly common type of portable sundial about 200 years ago, but I don't recall the name. Suspend the dial from a string tied around the elongated slot and centered over the current month . There is supposed to be a tiny wire or thin rod, or some other protrusion protruding a little bit from nose of the engraved sun. Hold the string, and turn the dial so that the protrusion casts a long shadow, and read the time from where the shadow crosses the current month line. -Bill G. Rixx wrote: Hello People! I just got a strange little sundial, its a coin, elliptical, about 1" by 1 3/8", apparently made of sterling silver. There is a hole through the coin at the sun marker, I assume for some sort of gnomon to be inserted. Across the top seems to be the months, and on the back it looks like a map of Europe with some city markings. http://www.yellott.com/sun/sun1.JPG http://www.yellott.com/sun/sun2.JPG I'd like to know how to use it, anyone know? I know being so small it will not be very accurate, especially since I am in the states (approx 31 degrees). Any help appreciated, Thanks! Phil Yellott --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
looking for pictures
Dear all I am preparing a presentation on sundials and time, and in order to illustrate one part, I am looking for pictures of sundials under severe weather conditions (snow, wind, ice rain, flows…) If someone has such picture, I would greatly appreciate to receive a copy. I will use these pictures only for that presentation I will give to a local university, and will mention a copyright notice. Many thanks for your assistance. François Blateyron http://www.shadowspro.com www.shadowspro.com (sundials astrolabes) --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
Re: looking for pictures
François,I send you in a separate mail a photo of my sundial in the snow. See low resolution picture in this mail.Only the upper part of the pole style is to see above the snow.It is the sundial you can see in normal circumstances on my website at page http://www.wijzerweb.be/hasselt003A.htmlI wrote a haiku illustrated by this picture(in Dutch language)De zonnewijzergeeft ondergesneeuwdalleen de wintertijd aan.(translation)The sundialunder the snow it indicatesonly winter time.Best Regards.Willy LEENDERSHasselt in Flanders (Belgium)www.wijzerweb.be Op 1-apr-09, om 19:53 heeft François BLATEYRON (CS) het volgende geschreven: Dear all I am preparing a presentation on sundials and time, and in order to illustrate one part, I am looking for pictures of sundials under severe weather conditions (snow, wind, ice rain, flows…) If someone has such picture, I would greatly appreciate to receive a copy. I will use these pictures only for that presentation I will give to a local university, and will mention a copyright notice. Many thanks for your assistance. François Blateyronwww.shadowspro.com(sundials astrolabes) ---https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
