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[xoggoth]

Been messing with my Bing maps thing again NF and got latitude and longitude values mixed up. Clicked on place in Sussex and zoomed in on Dubai. Good thing I'm not an airline pilot.

[mudskipper]

Been messing with my Bing maps thing again NF and got latitude and longitude values mixed up. Clicked on place in Sussex and zoomed in on Dubai. Good thing I'm not an airline pilot.

When I was at college back in the 80s, our group project was a font editor. Basically a grid which you could fill in squares to draw letters. (This was in the days when you had to code the UI) It was all nicely specced with interfaces etc - unfortunately half the developers assumed we were using x,y coordinates, and the other half up, along. So all the letters came out sideways. Fortunately we'd provided a rotate function, so managed to smoke and mirrors the demo.

[NickFitz]

Been messing with my Bing maps thing again NF and got latitude and longitude values mixed up. Clicked on place in Sussex and zoomed in on Dubai. Good thing I'm not an airline pilot.

I do that a lot with map stuff

[xoggoth]

When I was at college back in the 80s, our group project was a font editor. Basically a grid which you could fill in squares to draw letters. (This was in the days when you had to code the UI) It was all nicely specced with interfaces etc - unfortunately half the developers assumed we were using x,y coordinates, and the other half up, along. So all the letters came out sideways. Fortunately we'd provided a rotate function, so managed to smoke and mirrors the demo.

Yeh. That's the confusing bit about Bing maps. You get clicked coordinates as (x,y) then convert to (latitude, longitude), which is vertical,horizontal.

When I was at UNI we only had analogue computers.

PS I'm lying, we only had abacuses. Carved out of stone.

[BR14]

As befits the first grand repast of this year, - steak pie, chips and peas, and very nice too

[xoggoth]

I do that a lot with map stuff

Apart from the thing for footpaths inspections so I can mark problems, I've made another to suit my walking obsessions. I can view a grid overlaying my local area and zoom in on any section when clicked. Can post the code if you're interested in this stuff.

[NickFitz]

When I was at college back in the 80s, our group project was a font editor. Basically a grid which you could fill in squares to draw letters. (This was in the days when you had to code the UI) It was all nicely specced with interfaces etc - unfortunately half the developers assumed we were using x,y coordinates, and the other half up, along. So all the letters came out sideways. Fortunately we'd provided a rotate function, so managed to smoke and mirrors the demo.

The key is to think of the most efficient way to convert a coordinate to an address in screen memory, which inevitably leads to x increasing from left to right and y increasing from top to bottom because of how a CRT works

[NickFitz]

Apart from the thing for footpaths inspections so I can mark problems, I've made another to suit my walking obsessions. I can view a grid overlaying my local area and zoom in on any section when clicked. Can post the code if you're interested in this stuff.

Please do! I've never really used the Bing Maps API, so it would be interesting to see

[NickFitz]

As befits the first grand repast of this year, - steak pie, chips and peas, and very nice too

2019: Year of the Pie

[DoctorStrangelove]

This evening's epics began with "Doctor Who" (actual story, the first this season), followed by a little bit of "World War Weird" on Yesterday which I'd seen previously so now we're onto "The Dambusters Great Escape" on More4, which is about the sinking of the Tirpitz.

Poor bloody sailormen.

Now back to "World War Weird" with the pigeon guided missile.

The cat, by the way, is too dumb to use the access to the shed.

Ho very hum.