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Ok, here's a new message to stand out in the crowd.
If you know about this already, pay little attention then. If you don't,
sit up straight and pay attention! ;)
A submission form (and link to the map) is at:
http://members.aol.com/wrld0rigin/povworld.htm
where you can apply to have your home (or main) location placed on a
rendering of a world map. Instructions are there, just watch out for the
annoying "Thankyou" web page AOL generates when you submit the data.
Join up everybody, even if the map gets overcrowded with pin markers
there's always the text of the list of locales. Which reminds me, I'll
need to add a place name entry into the web page as well, not just
Lat/Lon numbers, too impersonal.
Thanks to all who sent me those coordinates so far, and thanks in
advance to all who later will.
--
omniVERSE: beyond the universe
http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
mailto:inv### [at] aol com?PoV
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Thats excellent! i love it.......now to find out my longitude and
latitude....
wheres my atlas? high school flashbacks.
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Chris wrote:
>Thats excellent! i love it.......now to find out my longitude and
>latitude....
>
One easy way to find out your lat. and long. is to use a hostname to
long/lat
converter, such as this one: http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2ll/
Just enter your IP or the homeserver of your (local) ISP and you have your
coordinates.
HTH,
- Marco
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Marco Bonetti schrieb in Nachricht <36cffe05.0@news.povray.org>...
>One easy way to find out your lat. and long. is to use a hostname to
>long/lat
>converter, such as this one: http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2ll/
This is not always very accurate of course. This page said my ISP is in
Bonn, Germany. This is more than 100 miles away from my location. Some
nationwide ISPs like T-Online or AOL might even be off by much more.
But if you really don't have a clue about your Lat/Lon values, it is better
than nothing. Ain't the web a great thing?
--
Rudy Velthuis
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Ingo found a site that can take the name of a place (town, city,
country[region]) and get a lat/lon (if it finds the place). Seems to
work well.
http://164.214.2.59/gns/bin/validate_query
Enter the Name and select a region from the list and send that. Never
mind the rest of the page, unless you have other plans.
For the U.S.A. try this instead:
http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html
Just enter Feature Name (city, town, etc.) and the State then Send. A
list will appear showing the coordinate of all related things.
Rudy Velthuis wrote:
>
> Marco Bonetti schrieb in Nachricht <36cffe05.0@news.povray.org>...
>
> >One easy way to find out your lat. and long. is to use a hostname to
> >long/lat
> >converter, such as this one: http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2ll/
>
> This is not always very accurate of course. This page said my ISP is in
> Bonn, Germany. This is more than 100 miles away from my location. Some
> nationwide ISPs like T-Online or AOL might even be off by much more.
>
> But if you really don't have a clue about your Lat/Lon values, it is better
> than nothing. Ain't the web a great thing?
>
> --
> Rudy Velthuis
--
omniVERSE: beyond the universe
http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
mailto:inv### [at] aolcom?PoV
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On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:22:17 -0600, Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom>
wrote:
>Ok, here's a new message to stand out in the crowd.
>If you know about this already, pay little attention then. If you don't,
>sit up straight and pay attention! ;)
>
>A submission form (and link to the map) is at:
>
> http://members.aol.com/wrld0rigin/povworld.htm
>
>where you can apply to have your home (or main) location placed on a
>rendering of a world map. Instructions are there, just watch out for the
>annoying "Thankyou" web page AOL generates when you submit the data.
>Join up everybody, even if the map gets overcrowded with pin markers
>there's always the text of the list of locales. Which reminds me, I'll
>need to add a place name entry into the web page as well, not just
>Lat/Lon numbers, too impersonal.
>Thanks to all who sent me those coordinates so far, and thanks in
>advance to all who later will.
Dad went crazy over the title of the page :) Bewildered me too, for a
moment
Peter
---------
Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700
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Chris Field wrote in message <36cfe809.0@news.povray.org>...
>Thats excellent! i love it.......now to find out my longitude and
>latitude....
>
I just looked at my GPS, which I happened to have on my desk.
Someone online had asked me "just exactly where is your new house?" and I
couldn't resist <g>
--John
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May I suggest putting a link to that on the WOrld Map page itself? Cool
idea.
Marco Bonetti wrote in message <36cffe05.0@news.povray.org>...
>Chris wrote:
>>Thats excellent! i love it.......now to find out my longitude and
>>latitude....
>>
>
>
>One easy way to find out your lat. and long. is to use a hostname to
>long/lat
>converter, such as this one: http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2ll/
>Just enter your IP or the homeserver of your (local) ISP and you have your
>coordinates.
>HTH,
> - Marco
>
>
>
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And you bewildered me... for a few *minutes*. I went to it and looked,
thought you meant something about the headline-like title. Then I saw
your last name again and it occured to me. I was thinking of 'POPulation
Of POV users' kind of thing when I entered a page title: PoPoV. Didn't
even occur to me at the time that your name is exactly that spelling.
You might be famous someday then ;) sad fact is though I don't pay much
attention to those window names, likewise maybe not anyone else either.
Watch for fan mail just in case though.
Peter Popov wrote:
>
> Dad went crazy over the title of the page :) Bewildered me too, for a
> moment
>
> Peter
>
> ---------
> Peter Popov
> ICQ: 15002700
--
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http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
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Too late, I done it.
"John M. Dlugosz" wrote:
>
> May I suggest putting a link to that on the WOrld Map page itself? Cool
> idea.
>
> Marco Bonetti wrote in message <36cffe05.0@news.povray.org>...
> >Chris wrote:
> >>Thats excellent! i love it.......now to find out my longitude and
> >>latitude....
> >>
> >
> >
> >One easy way to find out your lat. and long. is to use a hostname to
> >long/lat
> >converter, such as this one: http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2ll/
> >Just enter your IP or the homeserver of your (local) ISP and you have your
> >coordinates.
> >HTH,
> > - Marco
> >
> >
> >
--
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http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
mailto:inv### [at] aolcom?PoV
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Well, that gives me the co-ordinates of canberra, australia. only 1000 or so
kilometres away ;-)
back to the books!
Marco Bonetti wrote in message <36cffe05.0@news.povray.org>...
>One easy way to find out your lat. and long. is to use a hostname to
>long/lat
>converter, such as this one: http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2ll/
>Just enter your IP or the homeserver of your (local) ISP and you have your
>coordinates.
>HTH,
> - Marco
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Bob Hughes schrieb in Nachricht <36D0734E.3D3E7C2A@aol.com>...
>Ingo found a site that can take the name of a place (town, city,
>country[region]) and get a lat/lon (if it finds the place). Seems to
>work well.
>
> http://164.214.2.59/gns/bin/validate_query
>
>Enter the Name and select a region from the list and send that.
Thanks, but I found my coordinates in an old atlas. I already entered them
on the website. The site you quote will not load just like it is. You must
go there from some entry form, which I don't seem to be able to find on this
server. The main index says something about maritime maps only.
--
Rudy Velthuis
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On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:26:31 -0600, Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom>
wrote:
>Peter Popov wrote:
>>
>> Dad went crazy over the title of the page :) Bewildered me too, for a
>> moment
>>
>> Peter
>And you bewildered me... for a few *minutes*. I went to it and looked,
>thought you meant something about the headline-like title. Then I saw
>your last name again and it occured to me. I was thinking of 'POPulation
>Of POV users' kind of thing when I entered a page title: PoPoV. Didn't
>even occur to me at the time that your name is exactly that spelling.
>You might be famous someday then ;) sad fact is though I don't pay much
>attention to those window names, likewise maybe not anyone else either.
>Watch for fan mail just in case though.
I am prepared! I have a "Fans" mail filter running (basically
auto-reply with a big "Thanks!" and a Swiss bank account open for
donations) and a "Fans" mail folder residing on a separate 9.1 Gb HDD
that gets burned on CD-ROMs and subsequently cleaned every day. The
only problem remains that I only have a single sattelite taking care
of transfer, and the poor loser can't take more that 10 Gbits/sec :(
---------
Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700
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Hi Bob!
I tried to mail you yesterday but I fear it failed again.
The link to
http://164.214.2.59/gns/bin/validate_query
doesn't work because it trying to reach the form. I get the error
message:
"GNS Error Message
This window cannot be reloaded. You must go back to the previous form
and submit by selecting the button."
If you set the link to
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html
one can access the form.
Thanks!!!
Marc
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Rudy Velthuis wrote:
>
> Thanks, but I found my coordinates in an old atlas. I already entered them
> on the website. The site you quote will not load just like it is. You must
> go there from some entry form, which I don't seem to be able to find on this
> server. The main index says something about maritime maps only.
Use this address: http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
and press the QueryAccess Button a little down the page.
Took me a while....
Markus
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Ich nicht eine Sekunde!!!" H. Heinol in Val Thorens
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That's some bandwidth there. That would put me in the stone age since
I've got a lousey 26K connection average.
Peter Popov wrote:
>
> On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:26:31 -0600, Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom>
> wrote:
>
> >Peter Popov wrote:
> >>
> >> Dad went crazy over the title of the page :) Bewildered me too, for a
> >> moment
> >>
> >> Peter
>
> >And you bewildered me... for a few *minutes*. I went to it and looked,
> >thought you meant something about the headline-like title. Then I saw
> >your last name again and it occured to me. I was thinking of 'POPulation
> >Of POV users' kind of thing when I entered a page title: PoPoV. Didn't
> >even occur to me at the time that your name is exactly that spelling.
> >You might be famous someday then ;) sad fact is though I don't pay much
> >attention to those window names, likewise maybe not anyone else either.
> >Watch for fan mail just in case though.
>
> I am prepared! I have a "Fans" mail filter running (basically
> auto-reply with a big "Thanks!" and a Swiss bank account open for
> donations) and a "Fans" mail folder residing on a separate 9.1 Gb HDD
> that gets burned on CD-ROMs and subsequently cleaned every day. The
> only problem remains that I only have a single sattelite taking care
> of transfer, and the poor loser can't take more that 10 Gbits/sec :(
>
> ---------
> Peter Popov
> ICQ: 15002700
--
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http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
mailto:inv### [at] aolcom?PoV
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Rats! Terribly sorry Rudy, I failed to check that out myself until I saw
this here.
Will fix immediately.
Rudy Velthuis wrote:
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> Bob Hughes schrieb in Nachricht <36D0734E.3D3E7C2A@aol.com>...
> >Ingo found a site that can take the name of a place (town, city,
> >country[region]) and get a lat/lon (if it finds the place). Seems to
> >work well.
> >
> > http://164.214.2.59/gns/bin/validate_query
> >
> >Enter the Name and select a region from the list and send that.
>
> Thanks, but I found my coordinates in an old atlas. I already entered them
> on the website. The site you quote will not load just like it is. You must
> go there from some entry form, which I don't seem to be able to find on this
> server. The main index says something about maritime maps only.
> --
> Rudy Velthuis
--
omniVERSE: beyond the universe
http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
mailto:inv### [at] aolcom?PoV
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Thanks, I just saw about this and have already fixed as of now. I should
have know a submittal page might need the reffering page from
experience, but due to hast I overlooked it.
Thanks for letting me know.
Marc Schimmler wrote:
>
> Hi Bob!
>
> I tried to mail you yesterday but I fear it failed again.
>
> The link to
>
> http://164.214.2.59/gns/bin/validate_query
>
> doesn't work because it trying to reach the form. I get the error
> message:
>
> "GNS Error Message
>
> This window cannot be reloaded. You must go back to the previous form
> and submit by selecting the button."
>
> If you set the link to
>
> http://164.214.2.59/gns/html
>
> one can access the form.
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Marc
> --
> Marc Schimmler
--
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http://members.aol.com/inversez/POVring.htm
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Markus Becker schrieb in Nachricht <36D2AA06.B71E4043@zess.uni-siegen.de>...
>Rudy Velthuis wrote:
>
>Use this address: http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
>and press the QueryAccess Button a little down the page.
>Took me a while....
I had also found that out very late yesterday evening. It found even two
Gladbecks. But one of them had exactly the same coords as my atlas. So I
guess this is a good database.
--
Rudy
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Bob Hughes schrieb in Nachricht <36D2F642.17040B1E@aol.com>...
>Rats! Terribly sorry Rudy, I failed to check that out myself until I saw
>this here.
>Will fix immediately.
No need to say sorry. I think you provide a very interesting service.
--
Rudy Velthuis
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Glad to, welcome to all.
Rudy Velthuis wrote:
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> Bob Hughes schrieb in Nachricht <36D2F642.17040B1E@aol.com>...
> >Rats! Terribly sorry Rudy, I failed to check that out myself until I saw
> >this here.
> >Will fix immediately.
>
> No need to say sorry. I think you provide a very interesting service.
>
> --
> Rudy Velthuis
--
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