How to determine area coordinates

How to determine area coordinates

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At development of the interregional labor relations and also in personal interests, there is a need to make moving from the city to the city, other settlements, or to places where never before happened. Now there is a set of ways to determine coordinates of the necessary destination.

Instruction

1. Recently on the Internet there was a Google Earth program which allows to be guided by areas, to lay routes, to study the planet and many other things. Before to begin to use it: Load the program into the personal computer.

2. Begin installation of the downloaded file, having pressed the establish button and wait when the program is loaded.

3. Further begin to use the program: enter the place into panels of search and establish a tag.

4. In the 3D window - viewing examine the entered place, by means of control elements navigation (a circle with shooters) examine the area under different corners and scales.

5. Choose the initial place and establish a tag.

6. Guide the mouse cursor at a tag. Press the right button it and later press the CTRL key. Choose from here or here you want to get.

7. Guide the cursor at other tag and do the same actions, as in the previous point.

8. Also it is possible to determine coordinates by the website Bing.com. Enter the area interesting you into fields opposite to a logo and press search.

9. As the right mouse button choose the inscription Directions from here, in the left part to appear the window. Specify the area of appointment in it. The red flag means the initial area, a green flag – the area of appointment. In the same place in the left part, choose how you would like to reach.

10. Determination of coordinates by means of hours, a sextant and the globe. Find in the sky sun, and adjust the adjusting screw and the lever until the lower arch of the sun concerns the horizon. Note on hours time of this action to within a second.

11. Find an eminence corner on the adjusting screw and a scale of the Vernier.

12. Record results on the sheet of paper. Draw on the sun globe in the form of a ravnovozvyshenny circle. After that determine coordinates by meridians or the line of navigation notation.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

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