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Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:07:26 +0000 uk.people.silversurfers
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JoeH...
......what's going on at 52*25'17N 1*37'32W then?

pmj...
I dunno!
Go on then, tell us?

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...
The only Back Lane I knew was in Chalfont St Giles and it's not that one,
so I don't know the answer to the query. :(


pmj...
LOL!

Ah, but when you just Click a Link to a .KMZ File, the Browser
Fetches & Downloads the File, then hands it to web-search Earth, which
Opens it up & displays what's in the *File*!

But a .KMZ File is actually a Zipped File...
& it can contain various different things...

In this case, there's actually a .JPG Picture (Overlay)...

Try Opening it (the .KMZ File) up as a .ZIP File (ReName it to .ZIP)
& then see what's actually in it...

There's a .KML (Keyhole Markup Language) File, which is actually
a Plain Text (Description) File in it.

& there's *also* a Folder (called "images") in it which actually
contains an *Overlay* Picture! Which is a .JPG File - BOP.JPG
(Bird Of Prey)




Bird of prey

-1.459286084628229
52.42130121403761
440.5152564417156
2.059320161122637e-008
0.0121785777296573


images/BOP.JPG
0.75


52.42194608440042
52.42078334645345
-1.457780246268357
-1.460752010456742





Now, try taking those Co-Ordinates - Latitude & Longitude -
& Locating them *directly* in web-search Earth (or on the web-search Maps
Website)...

& you can see it's actually just a Plain Field!!!

JoeH...
*Really*? You mean there's not really a Klingong Bird over the UK? ;-)

Rabbit...
Of course not *everybody* knows you only get Klingons on the starboard bow
:-)


Reel it in now lads, we've caught a bigg'un this time LOL

Sorry pmj just jestin'.


& that's some distance away from the Co-Ordinates that you
originally Posted - which is a point about 7 Miles to the West
(& a few Yards slightly South) of the Location Pointed to by the
.KMZ File.

That's (one of) the clever things about web-search Earth (& the .KML
Keyhole Markup Language)...

You can (or Websites like that one) *overlay* your (or their)
own Pictures (& Routes & even 3D Buildings & things) onto the
standard Satellite Image Views & Maps!
:-)


JoeH...
http://www.freewebs.com/lord_craggle/Bird%20of%20prey3.kmz LOL


Rabbit...
I've tried separating those numbers by degree signs and by commas, Degrees
gave me nothing and commas gave me Chicago beach front.

pmj...
Try going to your web-search Earth Options...

Menu>Tools>Options...>View
& Setting it to show in Degrees (Decimal), rather than Degrees,
Minutes, Seconds

Then Entering the Decimal Equivalent of the Latitude & Longitude
(just separated with a Comma - Latitude,Longitude)...
52.421390,-1.625555

Your one BTW isn't the one that I saw a couple of days ago, the naughty word
in a field one ??? ;-)

pmj...
No, but there are lots of "Black Helicopters"!

JoeH...
Yup, I've seen some of them - and planes in flight and Concorde
and...and...and... it's just soooooooooooooo interesting.

:-)


pmj...
LOL!!!

Well, I was puzzled, when I opened up my web-search Earth Application
& looked at the Co-Ordinates that you specified in your Post & saw
nothing out of the ordinary...

& then, when I looked at it from the .KMZ File that you Posted
a Link to, the thing which showed up (which was actually a .JPG
Picture Overlay) wasn't actually in the same place anyway!!!


pmj...
What's the Co-Ordinates of that then?
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