So, you’ll probably have your own easy way of doing this. But, for those that don’t yet, here’s one simple way to quickly plot your Z32 solution on the Phillips 66 map and discover where it actually lands you.
Here I’m going to be using only an old version of Microsoft Word and a copy of the Zodiac Phillips Map. The example I’m going to be working with is one chosen completely at random, but which nonetheless has a nice, natural ‘read’ to it.
We use, then:
AT FOUR AND A THIRD INCHES RADIAN EIGHT
from:
‘RADIAN EIGHT’, here, assumes the given division of the superimposed compass rose over Mount Diablo, which The Zodiac has suggested we divide into twelve equal sectors of 30° each. Radian eight, therefore, it that “radial line” extending from Mount Diablo at a bearing of (8 × 30°) + 17° = 257° from map north, the last term added to make the adjustment to Magnetic North, as indicated.
Let’s get into it, then.
[cont…]
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
[…cont.]
So, we start by creating a new Word document and, to this, we add a New Drawing Canvas. Into this canvas we can then add our image of the Phillips 66 map. Setting the colour scheme to a grey-scale can help maximise the contrast later.
Onto this canvas we next add a vertical arrow, as below, ensuring that it is precisely up and down whilst, for the moment, its length is somewhat arbitrary. We are next wanting to set the length to the equivalent of one inch on the map.
To this point, then, we have:
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
[…cont.]
To get the correct scale for our arrow, we have next to first rotate it through 90° clockwise, drag it down towards the scale at the bottom-left of the map, and adjust it until we feel we have matched the unmarked 6.4 mile point, so:
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
[…cont.]
We next want to adjust its length.
As it is, we have it at 100% scaling and it is modelling 1 inch on the map. For our example here, we want it to model 4 ⅓ inches. Consequently—and first ensuring that we have checked ‘Lock aspect ratio’—we can set the scale to 433% as close enough.
We now come back to the angle and, as we have seen, we are wanting this to be 257° from straight up the page, and thus we can set this directely as below:
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
[…cont.]
It’s then just a case of repositioning the arrow so that the base lands on the ”+” sign on Mount Diablo, so:
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
[…cont.]
This takes us, for this example, to somewhere in the region of West Portal in San Francisco, roughly.
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)