[time-nuts] Having fun with LORSTA list and google maps

Brooke Clarke brooke at pacific.net
Sun May 8 12:11:32 EDT 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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