Gave the height OK, but when you zoom in it renames Penzance as Padstow.
Please don't say Rick Stein's moving.

Graham

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Penzance


"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
...
I've set up a page on my website which should enable you to find out your
height above sea-level as well as the sunrise/sunset time.

To find it, go to http://www.jstott.me.uk/gmapsgeotools/

All you do is to centre the map on where you are (or where you want to
find out about) and click either the "Get Height" or "Get Sunrise/Sunset"
buttons (after modifying the date/timezone/dst if you want). Height data
covers the whole of the maindland UK and islands up to 60 degrees north,
as well as some parts of Ireland, France, Belgium and Holland.

If you're interested, the height data is derived from the Shuttle Radar
Topography Mission data which has data points every 3 arc seconds between
56 degrees south and 60 degrees north. For the UK, 3 arcseconds works out
at aroundabout 90m. Vertical accuracy is reported to be within 16m - the
height for my location is given as 7m when I'd previously read it off an
OS map as being 8m.

It would be interesting to know about your views on user-friendliness,
other ideas for geographic tools like that (distance between two points?
areas?), apparent accuracy or just plain errors! I already have plans to
display the latitude/longitude at the centre of the map as well as the OS
grid reference.

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Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
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Jonathan Stott wrote:

It would be interesting to know about your views on user-friendliness,
other ideas for geographic tools like that (distance between two points?
areas?), apparent accuracy or just plain errors! I already have plans to
display the latitude/longitude at the centre of the map as well as the
OS grid reference.


The height in my sig is taken from an OS spot height. Your map gives 243
metres which is well within the 16 metre claimed accuracy. The only
other information I would like to see (OS grid and lat/long) you are
already planning so all I can say is very well done. I have bookmarked
it and will use it.

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Regards

Howard Neil
(western end of the Brecon Beacons National Park, at 235 metres asl)

Graham P Davis wrote:

I found moving around the map laborious, even with broadband. It
would be an advantage to be able to centre/zoom on a location by
clicking on it.

Slow on dialup
Could you get to the area by postcode first and then refine from there?
Height was correct

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regards
Jill Bowis

Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk

Jill. wrote:

Slow on dialup

Erk - forgot people still had dialup If you have dialup, you're still
better off looking at other sites with OS maps on - I decided to do this
because I like the flexibility that Google Maps gives you and it makes
it easy for my to write my own code on top of the map.

Could you get to the area by postcode first and then refine from there?
Height was correct

Sadly not. Postcode data is protected by copyright and I am not in a
position to pay the extortionate fees that the Royal Mail want. I have
my eyes on a public domain product produced by the US government which
contains latitude/longitude data for something like 4 million locations
worldwide - I might build that in to make it quicker to find where you are!

Jonathan

Jonathan Stott wrote:
Jill. wrote:

Slow on dialup

Erk - forgot people still had dialup

according to Ofcom although Broadband is increasing rapidly only 30% of the
population is on it

:~))

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regards
Jill Bowis

Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk

In message , Howard
Neil writes
Jonathan Stott wrote:

It would be interesting to know about your views on
user-friendliness, other ideas for geographic tools like that
(distance between two points? areas?), apparent accuracy or just
plain errors! I already have plans to display the latitude/longitude
at the centre of the map as well as the OS grid reference.


The height in my sig is taken from an OS spot height. Your map gives
243 metres which is well within the 16 metre claimed accuracy. The only
other information I would like to see (OS grid and lat/long) you are
already planning so all I can say is very well done. I have bookmarked
it and will use it.

Not showing map in Firefox

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Peter Thomas

Jonathan Stott wrote:
I've set up a page on my website which should enable you to find out
your height above sea-level as well as the sunrise/sunset time.

To find it, go to http://www.jstott.me.uk/gmapsgeotools/


Working fine here (Firefox on Fedora Core 4) , agrees with my GPS at any
rate.


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Mike
Some pictures & bad html here http://www.prog99.com

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:39:10 +0000, Jonathan Stott wrote in


I've set up a page on my website which should enable you to find out
your height above sea-level as well as the sunrise/sunset time.

To find it, go to http://www.jstott.me.uk/gmapsgeotools/

The map is not being shown on my system using IE7. I could see it in both
Opera and Firefox.

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 03/11/2005 19:20:49 UTC

Peter Thomas wrote:
In message , Howard
Neil writes

Jonathan Stott wrote:

It would be interesting to know about your views on
user-friendliness, other ideas for geographic tools like that
(distance between two points? areas?), apparent accuracy or just
plain errors! I already have plans to display the latitude/longitude
at the centre of the map as well as the OS grid reference.


The height in my sig is taken from an OS spot height. Your map gives
243 metres which is well within the 16 metre claimed accuracy. The
only other information I would like to see (OS grid and lat/long) you
are already planning so all I can say is very well done. I have
bookmarked it and will use it.

Not showing map in Firefox


Well, I'm using Firefox with not problems. Does it need a plug-in, such
as Javascript, perhaps?

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Regards

Howard Neil

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:39:10 +0000, Jonathan Stott
wrote:

I've set up a page on my website which should enable you to find out
your height above sea-level as well as the sunrise/sunset time.

To find it, go to http://www.jstott.me.uk/gmapsgeotools/

When you get to the highest zoom levels some images kook very wrong.
If you do a screen capture and rotate the image 180 degrees then it
all looks ok again. The trees start looking like they are growing out
of the ground rather than looking like green craters!

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Electronics stencils for Visio http://www.electronics.pherber.com/