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dinner has been haddock and chips from the local chippy.
minimising washing up, as i'm off to make noise in cloggyland for a long weekend with my old band
thankfully, all the cloggy's i met when living there were much less prone to whining misery than this forum's resident.
i suspect much of the old rock 'n' roll cliches will be indulged in, so wish me luck, chaps.
Have fun! A long weekend of eating out of Febo sounds excellent
Steak and ale casserole from March for dinner, with potato wedges and peas
I had a pleasant surprise earlier. I'd downloaded some old maps (c. 1939) of stream flows and alluvial deposits and what have you in the Mississippi basin from a US Government web site, which it said were "rectified for projection" or some such term. They were in very large TIFF files, and I assumed the rectification was to make them fit on a map, confirmed when I saw that some were rotated by some angle to put north at the top and what have you.
I wasn't sure where to go from there, but a search pointed me to the gdal2tile command, so I ran one of them through that, hoping to figure out how to use it to get a tileset I could put on a map.
And much to my astonishment, it not only produced a tileset, it also generated some HTML files and, when I ran one, it had found the geographical data that must have been encoded in the TIFF files, and there they were, at several zoom levels slap bang over the Mississippi
Perfectly matched, too - I checked round the edges, and things like railways running off the map continued on the modern map tiles underneath
So that's saved me a lot of trouble, and now I can use these really nice colourful maps to produce examples of displaying a web map with selectable alternative tile layers, which is what I wanted to do
Tonight's movie mayhem was Sliding Doors (1998), which… well, not really my thing, yuppies
Leaving aside the story and the characters, the geography was all over the place. She leaves the Tube (well, a subsurface line) at Embankment, then goes to a sandwich shop in the vicinity of Baker Street on her way to an office near Fenchurch Street. Then later, having gone back to Embankment and missed her train (in one timeline) she goes out to the street where she flags down a cab on a road near Marylebone. None of this makes any sense, and that's just in the first ten minutes or so
Anyway, that's it watched, so it's out of the way now
The geography was all over the place. She leaves the Tube (well, a subsurface line) at Embankment, then goes to a sandwich shop in the vicinity of Baker Street on her way to an office near Fenchurch Street. Then later, having gone back to Embankment and missed her train (in one timeline) she goes out to the street where she flags down a cab on a road near Marylebone.
One of the disadvantages of knowing London well. Johnny English 2 particularly annoys me for that.
Though not as bad as the Italian job 1969. Milk Float on London Wall?
Tonight's movie mayhem was Sliding Doors (1998), which… well, not really my thing, yuppies
Leaving aside the story and the characters, the geography was all over the place. She leaves the Tube (well, a subsurface line) at Embankment, then goes to a sandwich shop in the vicinity of Baker Street on her way to an office near Fenchurch Street. Then later, having gone back to Embankment and missed her train (in one timeline) she goes out to the street where she flags down a cab on a road near Marylebone. None of this makes any sense, and that's just in the first ten minutes or so
Anyway, that's it watched, so it's out of the way now
But what it didn't explain, because it's largely inexplicable, was why J. Edgar "Mary" Hoover was informed by Popov (the double agent known as Tricycle) of a microdot questionaire from the Abwehr regarding Pearl Harbour but never passed the information on to anyone else.
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