Re: Convert IRIDFLAR output to HTML
Robert G Fenske Jr (fenske@rgfpc.electro.swri.edu)
Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:10:19 -0600 (CST)
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 3432P@VM1.CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL wrote:
> I love Rob Matson's new IRIDFLAR feature that shows the lat/long of
> the best location to see a flare. I quickly tired, however, of manually
> entering the coordinates into the Tiger Map Server, so I spent an hour
I think a useful addition would be to compute and display the
direction and distance from the used lat/lon to the best lat/lon. This
is straightforward to compute (for a spherical Earth anyway). Knowing
this would help those users with little, if any, network access use
whatever maps they have of their areas. ("Bearing 77, distance 4.5 km...
hey, that's near Guido's Grocery and Bait Emporium...")
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