tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post3603578605806785532..comments2024-03-27T21:49:03.499-07:00Comments on SearchReSearch: Answer: Do you know the way... Dan Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-50854014866205926302016-03-15T17:12:47.705-07:002016-03-15T17:12:47.705-07:00I realize now that I forgot to describe an importa...I realize now that I forgot to describe an important step. Before you use your protractor, you should set the latitude/longitude grid on (ctrl+L or View | Grid) on Google Earth.Luís Miguel Viterbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13198394145108636883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-29089407376682915582016-03-15T14:51:09.491-07:002016-03-15T14:51:09.491-07:00off topic, but map related in the lower 48 - E>...off topic, but map related in the lower 48 - E>S>NW… at least it isn't a barge ;)<br />…interesting notion… there's a lot of ground between Atlanta & Boulder… wish I was smarter than a phone, I'd be tempted to visit the van… (is it self-driving, self-aware, guarded by Atlas & <a href="http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_littledog.html" rel="nofollow">Little Dogs</a>?)<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/nsbZjFBKmUQ" rel="nofollow">Adler -maybe as a Peet's alternative…?</a><br /><a href="http://bindlecoffee.com/" rel="nofollow">FT. Collins</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/methodical_sc" rel="nofollow">brew in Greenville (from the last link, it's all about bean water in some form still - hey, a bean still…)</a><br /><a href="http://www.journalnow.com/news/state_region/google-is-hitting-the-road-for-user-feedback-will-stop/article_0d8b47ac-e7bd-11e5-a229-d3b70bd57554.html" rel="nofollow">Boulder</a><br /><a href="http://greentripz.com/denver-420-celebration-week-2016/" rel="nofollow">how can the van pass the 4/20 research opportunity?</a><br /><a href="http://sils.unc.edu/news/2016/google-ux-mobile" rel="nofollow">ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR)</a><br /><a href="http://googleasiapacific.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">doesn't AlphaGo already know how this turn out?</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo" rel="nofollow">bits on AG</a><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/h_xOYjVsphg" rel="nofollow">Go</a><br /><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/473160/where-are-the-american-cities-that-arent-struggling/" rel="nofollow">down in Greenville, S.C. w/ Jimmy & Debi…</a><br />…didn't Seinfeld have an encounter with a van and George's parents?remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-34766974778797238312016-03-15T12:09:19.605-07:002016-03-15T12:09:19.605-07:00navigating…
getting from there to there
Winnie Mae...navigating…<br /><a href="http://si-siris.blogspot.com/2016/02/be-your-own-navigator.html" rel="nofollow">getting from there to there</a><br /><a href="http://acepilots.com/post.html" rel="nofollow">Winnie Mae</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-17851961777836525292016-03-14T23:34:24.238-07:002016-03-14T23:34:24.238-07:00…for grins: from jon tU's hometown, Courtenay…...…for grins: from jon tU's hometown, Courtenay… over <b>Kamloops Lake</b> tough getting out of there with a full fuel load/grandkids/friends/cases of brown vodka… who knew?<br /><a href="http://s21.postimg.org/5l5v99ddj/jon_t_U_s_hometown.jpg" rel="nofollow">Dakar, Senegal</a><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/10/AR2010081003354.html" rel="nofollow">VO</a><br />"Canadian whisky drinkers have two defining characteristics: One, they're men. Two, they have gray hair."<br /><a href="http://www.ask.com/food/vo-stand-seagram-s-vo-3aea7dc3973ef55e" rel="nofollow">VO?</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-56666133878534283342016-03-14T15:03:36.337-07:002016-03-14T15:03:36.337-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-89549638160805640842016-03-14T14:19:44.645-07:002016-03-14T14:19:44.645-07:00…just a small quibble/observation - doesn't ch...…just a small quibble/observation - doesn't change your solution, but using the visual clue given with the map fragment…<br />illustrates how a small degree tick changes the destination… see you in Lisbon?<br />Saúde guys… or Skál or Chimo, eh… •(<a href="http://ballastmag.com/2012/10/chimo-the-lost-canadian-toast/" rel="nofollow"><i>Mike</i></a>)•<br /><a href="http://s17.postimg.org/9josleo0v/kamloops_lake_crossing.jpg" rel="nofollow">Kamloops Lake crossing points…</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-90462831863429058842016-03-14T13:59:17.955-07:002016-03-14T13:59:17.955-07:00An alternative way to answer question #1 is to use...An alternative way to answer question #1 is to use Google Earth as follows:<br /><br />1. Find Vancouver International Airport (or YVR, which is the same).<br />2. Rotate the <b>N</b> on the compass (click and drag) to North<b>west</b> (up-left). This way, UP will now be Northeast.<br />3. Use the <b>up arrow</b> on your keyboard until you leave Canada and keep going until you reach land. You may even stop and zoom out and in whenever you wish on the way there, nothing will change.<br /><br />I found Vigo Airport (or VGO, in Spain) to be the answer almost exactly (although the line still barely touches Greenland on the way there).<br /><br />Because it's not easy to rotate the N on the compass to <i>exactly</i> Northwest, you should check carefully the initial bearing. I did it twice:<br />1. While on Google Earth, use any Protactor / Angle app, like <a href="http://www.cthing.com" rel="nofollow">Meazure</a> by C Thing or the swiss-knife-like tool <a href="http://ngwin.com/picpick" rel="nofollow">PicPick</a> (by the Portuguese company NGWIN). You should then zoom as much as you can on — but carefully not to zoom too much, or GEarth will start tilting the view. You may always untilt until vertical view again with shift + up arrow or shift + back mouse wheel. If you use (on Meazure or PicPick or whatever) an angle with a vertical line and a 45.0 degrees line, the vertical line on the screen will also serve as a guide when you then click and hold the up arrow on Google Earth.<br />2. After finding your answer (let's say Vigo Airport), check the initial bearing / heading of the line YVR-VGO on any of the online great circle mapper tools. My favorite one for this stuff (and the one I used) is the very simple Distance (How Far is It?) page on <a href="http://indo.com" rel="nofollow">indo.com</a>. After getting (on Wikipedia) the coordinates for Vancouver and Vigo Airports, and feeding them into "How Far is It?", it gave me exactly 45.0 degrees (<a href="http://bit.ly/YVR-VGO" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/YVR-VGO</a>):<br /><br />"Initial heading from 49:11:41N 123:11:02W to 42:13:45N 8:37:39W:<br />northeast (45.0 degrees)"<br /><br /><i>Note that ACSCDG.com, although very easy to use, is a litle less precise than indo-com, only getting degrees to zero decimals. If you zoom in on the ACSCDG.com map, 45 degrees will be anything between Ourense and Viana do Castelo. Vigo is just a little bit to the South of the bisector of the line between Ourense and Viana do Castelo. On indo.com, the initial heading for a route from YVR to Porto (OPO) is 45.7 degrees (<a href="http://bit.ly/YVR-OPO" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/YVR-OPO</a>)</i><br /><br />I loved this challenge. Sorry for not having answered earlier.Luís Miguel Viterbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13198394145108636883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-63457805854725013372016-03-14T11:59:42.579-07:002016-03-14T11:59:42.579-07:00jon tU mencionou ofuscação e existem variáveis ......jon tU mencionou ofuscação e existem variáveis ... deve aprender a tirar a cabeça para fora do meu azimute ... de qualquer forma, é bom saber ... desfrutar de Portugal!<br />jon's garage? he must have some very understanding neighbors given his parking situation… wonder what the gravel is for? <br />this question was a 7 notrump grand slammerini & an illuminating flummoxer…<br /><a href="http://s28.postimg.org/sf2cujs1p/19_St.jpg" rel="nofollow">19 St. w/A340-200 - a quiet day in Courtenay</a><br /><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/RzykDAzSSKQ2" rel="nofollow">19 St. without</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtenay,_British_Columbia#/media/File:Courtenay_final_31.jpg" rel="nofollow">that would be a squeeze…</a><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/pa-dGYjSq5k" rel="nofollow">Louie, in a crazy world</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-65203653547073174812016-03-14T10:41:56.455-07:002016-03-14T10:41:56.455-07:00Dan, Thank you running this Challenge. And to eve...Dan, Thank you running this Challenge. And to everyone who gave it a go. There was even more to learn than I thought. jon tUjonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06450649073262987652noreply@blogger.com