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Title: Centered Position
Post by: wheeler on April 28, 2008, 06:23:10 PM
Hi all
This is my first post and i have a small problem when i put my map in for the island of guernsey channel islands,i put the 4 digitcode in for the local airport, i have put my lat long in correctly but when i center the map on home the center goes to the home position but at the top of the screen it says CENTERED AT ATLANTIC OCEAN UNLESS THE ISLAND HAS FLOATED TO THE ATLANTC or there is something i might have not done.
please help otherwise great bit of kit
Title: Re: Centered Position
Post by: AirNav Support on April 28, 2008, 07:48:15 PM
Whats the long and lat you are entering. You don't need to give us exact values?
Title: Re: Centered Position
Post by: Airmad on April 28, 2008, 08:06:00 PM
Hi all
This is my first post and i have a small problem when i put my map in for the island of guernsey channel islands,i put the 4 digitcode in for the local airport, i have put my lat long in correctly but when i center the map on home the center goes to the home position but at the top of the screen it says CENTERED AT ATLANTIC OCEAN UNLESS THE ISLAND HAS FLOATED TO THE ATLANTC or there is something i might have not done.
please help otherwise great bit of kit
If i put my lat & long in it make me about 18 miles south of my home.
I find it better to point to your location on map and save as home. hope this helps
Title: Re: Centered Position
Post by: AirNav Support on April 28, 2008, 08:14:38 PM
That should not be case, whats probally happening is that you are not entering the values in decimal format.
Title: Re: Centered Position
Post by: Airmad on April 28, 2008, 08:54:51 PM
That should not be case, whats probally happening is that you are not entering the values in decimal format.
Can you please give me a correct format example, for 52 43.2 north & 01 06.7 west and i will see if it works.
Title: Re: Centered Position
Post by: wheeler on April 28, 2008, 09:11:35 PM
Hi
What i have put in for lat long is
LAT 49.43611
LONG -2.602778
hope this is right
Cheers Wheeler
Title: Re: Centered Position
Post by: Allocator on April 28, 2008, 09:40:53 PM
That should not be case, whats probally happening is that you are not entering the values in decimal format.
Can you please give me a correct format example, for 52 43.2 north & 01 06.7 west and i will see if it works.

See this online convertor:

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html

I make your example 52 43.2 north & 01 06.7 west as below:

LAT 52.72
LON -1.111667

Also for wheeler, Using Google Earth I make the airport on Guernsey:

LAT 49.435108
LON -2.601198

Hope this helps
Title: Re: Centered Position
Post by: wheeler on April 28, 2008, 09:58:03 PM
Many thanks for this
lat ok
long ok
but still says centered at atlantc ocean even though the center of the map is at guernsey maybe i am doing something wrong
many thanks
Wheeler
Title: Re: Centered Position
Post by: AirNav Support on April 28, 2008, 10:01:04 PM
The actual english location mentioned may still think you are in the sea (think it works on the cursor location) but as long it centers your map into guernsey rhen thats the important bit.
Title: Re: Centered Position
Post by: wheeler on April 28, 2008, 10:08:21 PM
Hi your lat and long ok no probs with that,its just that its still centered in the atlantic ocean
maybe we had some more rain and we floated there, or they changed the English Channel to the Atlantic Ocean and never told us about it
he he he
Title: Re: Centered Position
Post by: Deadcalm on April 29, 2008, 07:27:14 AM
I've mentioned the title legend at the top of the map on a number of occasions, as I think the current format is a bit daft.  A more logical solution, should we have to have a title, would be for the Lat/Long co-ordinates for the "Centered" position to be displayed instead, with an on/off toggle for those who are too shy to publish their true location.  Even better, make it editable.

DC