Roger Bailey wrote:
Hello Richard,
I am pleased to see that you are waymarking sundials in Britain. This
will be an excellent resource. The member specific password protection
is useful but it will not stop the clever thief/collector from joining
the club to learn where the trophies are kept.
No, you misunderstand me. The password protection is applied to the
whole of the new BSS website while it is under development, so that the
search engines will direct people to the current BSS website.
The sundials that I am putting on Google Maps are those that are
publicly accessible anyway. When the new BSS website is ready, these
will be available for all to see.
I have been testing the open system www.waymarking.com and adding
information to this open data base. It is quite useful and easy to
use. Perhaps too easy as it suffers from the usual problem of user
generated input. GIGO! There approval bar is set quite low. Anything
submitted that looks like a sundial gets added. Many are garden
variety junk but we cannot deny that these objects exist.
Yes, I took a brief look at that.
I use started using Google Earth for the 3 dimensional aspects showing
the hills where we hike. It plots our track logs very well. This 3d
feature uses lots of computer resources and is unnecessary to
sundials. Here the 2d maps and satellite images of Google maps or
equivalent are all we need. I was used to creating and using kml
files with Google Earth so I avoided learning how to use such files in
the simpler Google Maps. Like computers sometimes I have to say
Excuse me, my brain is full.
In theory at least, you can submit KML files to Google Earth, and it
will ignore the three dimensional information.
Regards, Roger Bailey
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From: Richard Mallett 100114@compuserve.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:16 AM
To: Phil Walker phil.wal...@sunandshadows.net
Cc: 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; Roger
Bailey rtbai...@telus.net; Woody Sullivan (Earthdial)
wo...@astro.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Shropshire Sundials And Google Earth
Phil Walker wrote:
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.
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Richard Mallett
Eaton Bray, Dunstable
South Beds. UK
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