[time-nuts] Having fun with LORSTA list and google maps
Brooke Clarke
brooke at pacific.net
Sun May 8 16:11:32 UTC 2005
Hi Poul:
The links below are one step back from full magnification for the two
that I chacked 9940X & 9660X.
Thanks very much for these,
Brooke
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Googles map service can show sattelite pictures, and one can enter
> lon+lat directly in the URL so I played around with the LORSTA list
> from NAVCEN and a little script:
>
> LORSTA 9940X:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.782531,-122.495549&spn=0.068407,0.093985&t=k&hl=en
>
> LORSTA 9660Y:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.062825,-77.912836&spn=0.068407,0.093985&t=k&hl=en
>
> LORSTA 9660M:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.714088,-76.825919&spn=0.068407,0.093985&t=k&hl=en
>
> And the best one I found so far:
>
> LORSTA 9660X:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.253346,-69.977371&spn=0.008551,0.011748&t=k&hl=en
>
>
> What I did was to take the lon+lat from
> http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/loran/LoranSelectChain.htm
> and enter it into this little script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> (
> echo 42 42 50.716 76 49 33.308 9660M SENECA NY
> echo 41 15 12.046 69 58 38.536 9660X NANTUCKET, MA
> echo 39 51 07.658 87 29 11 586 9660Z DANA, IN
> echo 46 48 27.305 67 55 37 159 9660W CARIBOU, ME
> echo 34 03 46.170 77 54 46.210 9660Y CAROLINA BEACH, NC
> echo 57 26 20.300 152 22 10.650 9990Z KODIAK, NARROW CAPE, AK
> echo 38 46 57.110 122 29 43.976 9940X MIDDLETOWN, CA
> ) |
> awk '
> {
> printf "\n%s\n", $0
> printf "http://maps.google.com/maps?ll="
> printf "%.9f,", $1 + $2 / 60.0 + $3 / 3600.0
> printf "-%.9f", $4 + $5 / 60.0 + $6 / 3600.0
> printf "&t=k&hl=en\n"
> }
> '
>
> Then paste the URLS to your browser and zoom in as far as google has
> Satellite pictures.
>
> Enjoy!
>
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