new satellite map of oz

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 22 January 05 6:25 am

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsro ... g_id=16765

now, who is going to be first to plot all the caches on it?

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 22 January 05 8:10 am

Thats Beaudiful!

[EDIT]: Whoops - don't link to it. Crashed my computer three times trying to edit the link out.

Bronze.

Team Geo-Nads · Post by **Team Geo-Nads** » 22 January 05 8:32 am

Where would you get the calibration file from?

swampgecko · Post by **swampgecko** » 22 January 05 9:19 am

I have been trying to cal the map, with not much success... just using features from the map and matching them against a map on my wall for lat and long... I used 5 waypoints.... got fairly close, but most of the caches near the coast appeared to be about 50klms or more off shore to the east:(

I am going to try cutting back to two cal points and see what happens

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 22 January 05 10:53 am

swampgecko wrote:I have been trying to cal the map, with not much success... just using features from the map and matching them against a map on my wall for lat and long... I used 5 waypoints.... got fairly close, but most of the caches near the coast appeared to be about 50klms or more off shore to the east:( I am going to try cutting back to two cal points and see what happens

what calibration are you using?

Mix · Post by **Mix** » 22 January 05 11:18 am

While I wait for that image to downloadÃ‚â€¦

riblit wrote: something

I am relived to Ã‚â€˜seeÃ‚â€™ you Rib. With all the daily GC.AU Ã‚â€˜NSW cache updatesÃ‚â€™ having 'no new caches'. Coupled with not reading from you in the forums I was worried you had disappeared. Surely this does not mean that no one has hidden any caches. If so I better go hide one.

SNIFTER · Post by **SNIFTER** » 22 January 05 12:30 pm

Mix said
' Surely this does not mean that no one has hidden any caches. If so I better go hide one.'

They are awaiting for someone to check them.

Lt. Sniper · Post by **Lt. Sniper** » 22 January 05 12:38 pm

Its low average elevation (300 meters, or less than 1000 feet) is caused by its position near the center of a tectonic plate, where there are no volcanic or other geologic forces of the type that raise the topography of other continents. In fact, Australia is the only continent without any current volcanic activity at allÃ‚â€”the last eruption took place 1,400 years ago at Mt. Gambier.

Woohoo!

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 22 January 05 12:52 pm

Mix wrote:While I wait for that image to downloadÃ‚â€¦

riblit wrote: something

I am relived to Ã‚â€˜seeÃ‚â€™ you Rib. With all the daily GC.AU Ã‚â€˜NSW cache updatesÃ‚â€™ having 'no new caches'. Coupled with not reading from you in the forums I was worried you had disappeared. Surely this does not mean that no one has hidden any caches. If so I better go hide one.

I have been battling a migrane for the last 3 days and haven't been near the computer except for must do work related things, and then only in short periods as too much thinking was causing my brain to explode.

Apologies to all waiting for caches to be released. I have just finished the list. All that could go have now left the safety of the review queue and are in the wild.

Mix · Post by **Mix** » 22 January 05 1:39 pm

riblit wrote: I have been battling a migrane for the last 3 days and haven't been near the computer except for must do work related things, and then only in short periods as too much thinking was causing my brain to explode.

Apologies to all waiting for caches to be released. I have just finished the list. All that could go have now left the safety of the review queue and are in the wild.

Sorry to hear that you were unwell.

I see now there is a new cache in my area so I must dash.

Three cheers for riblit

Map Monkey · Post by **Map Monkey** » 22 January 05 2:16 pm

For those people who are looking for a calibration file (read: Oziexplorer .map file) there was a posting on the Ozieplorer group with the file (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OziUsers-L/message/22195). Here it is:

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OziExplorer Map Data File Version 2.2
Shaded Relief map of Australia
PIA06665.tif
1 ,Map Code,
NAD83,WGS 84, 0.0000, 0.0000,WGS 84
Reserved 1
Reserved 2
Magnetic Variation,,,E
Map Projection,Mercator,PolyCal,No,AutoCalOnly,No,BSBUseWPX,No
Point01,xy, 451, 3074,in, deg, 33,31.24842,S, 114, 59.2497,E,
grid, , , ,N
Point02,xy, 204, 1963,in, deg, 25,28.74858,S, 112, 57.7497,E,
grid, , , ,N
Point03,xy, 3749, 89,in, deg, 10,42.24894,S, 142,31.24968,E,
grid, , , ,N
Point04,xy, 5041, 1857,in, deg, 24, 43.2486,S, 153,15.74964,E,
grid, , , ,N
Point05,xy, 4215, 3908,in, deg, 39, 8.7483,S, 146,22.74966,E,
grid, , , ,N
Point06,xy, 3180, 2926,in, deg, 32,30.74844,S, 137,46.24968,E,
grid, , , ,N
Point07,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point08,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point09,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point10,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point11,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point12,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point13,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point14,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point15,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point16,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point17,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point18,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point19,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point20,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point21,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point22,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point23,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point24,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point25,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point26,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point27,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point28,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point29,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Point30,xy, , ,in, deg, , ,N, , ,W,
grid, , , ,N
Projection Setup,,,,,,,,,,
Map Feature = MF ; Map Comment = MC These follow if they exist
Track File = TF These follow if they exist
Moving Map Parameters = MM? These follow if they exist
MM0,Yes
MMPNUM,4
MMPXY,1,0,0
MMPXY,2,5200,0
MMPXY,3,5200,4858
MMPXY,4,0,4858
MMPLL,1, 111.267066, -9.935835
MMPLL,2, 154.614772, -9.988966
MMPLL,3, 154.579973, -45.011648
MMPLL,4, 111.232267, -44.973619
MM1B,812.441231
MOP,Map Open Position,0,0
IWH,Map Image Width/Height,5200,4858

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Have not checked it yet

though you may have to change your file extensions (3rd line to PIA06665_lrg.jpg etc) Note the datum for this calibration file is NAD83.

Regards

Agsmky

SNIFTER · Post by **SNIFTER** » 22 January 05 3:28 pm

I'll believe you

dcr · Post by **dcr** » 22 January 05 3:38 pm

ideology wrote:now, who is going to be first to plot all the caches on it?

like this? *chuckle*

cheers Darren

SNIFTER · Post by **SNIFTER** » 22 January 05 11:15 pm

You know that holiday rule

Geocaching Australia

new satellite map of oz

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