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shaqmeister
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RE: What the Robbins witnesses saw

Short of having yet been able to introduce into the model a fully detailed and accurate yellow Ford Custom cab, the whole is somewhat limited in what …

8 hours ago
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RE: What the Robbins witnesses saw

And, for what it’s worth, the view that would have been had by Lynsdey from the alcove, just popping his head around from the third step to peek at th…

9 hours ago
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RE: What the Robbins witnesses saw

In contrast, coming down to the ground floor, this would be the comparable view looking directly out of the centre of the ground floor window with hea…

9 hours ago
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RE: What the Robbins witnesses saw

Firstly, then, this would be the view from the dormer window at the top of the house (3899), looking down. The black strip along the bottom of th…

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RE: What the Robbins witnesses saw

Then, we can add in the lighting for a single street lamp on the south-east corner of Washington and Cherry, and we are ready to see what views we can…

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RE: What the Robbins witnesses saw

To this it was then quite laborious, but crucial, to reconstruct the two property frontages, especially 3899, to sufficient detail to permit the key b…

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RE: What the Robbins witnesses saw

The data required for this project comes from various sources, the aim being to try to get the model as accurate as possible in the crucial elements a…

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RE: My z32 candidate

Here, of course, I’m specifying the bearing from map north, marked by the little direction arrow over the encircled ‘66’ on the left of the map. Does …

1 day ago
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RE: My z32 candidate

Operationally, if starting out from an actual on-the-ground bearing/range (degrees/miles) coordinate pair and wanting to determine where we would find…

4 days ago
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RE: My z32 candidate

What your calculations show us here is that if the Phillips 66 were correctly aligned on true north and if the scale were 6.4 miles to the inch, then …

4 days ago
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RE: My z32 candidate

Hi @Marclean. Yeah, it looks like what you’re doing there is reading the scale marks the wrong way around. The 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 are the miles alread…

6 days ago
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RE: Plotting your Z32 Solution using Google Maps (if you must)

To pursue more precise values for the scaling and northing errors of the Phillips 66, we can substitute for our previous method—one which used a minim…

6 days ago
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RE: My z32 candidate

But are you, though? I’m asking, because the location you have marked looks awfully close to what you would get if you used a modern accurate mappin…

7 days ago
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