Is this you? Now with "View in Google Earth"

shmoo

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Is this you? Now with \"View in Google Earth\"

Folks have asked for some sort of regional view of boats on yourboatpix, now that it is getting bigger. I thought of several schemes and realized that each one re-invented Google Earth.

What we have done is to add Lat Long fields to Upload and Edit pages. We will add a "View From" page so you can "fly" over Solent, East Coast, Wales, Scotland and other areas where we have pics of boats. Here is a prototype http://www.yourboatpix.co.uk/kml.php (this is work in progress, not the final page)

At present only about half a dozen boats have Lat Long (added by me by inference and guesswork) and they have a Google Earth icon in Browse and Search. Can I ask uploaders to add Lat Long in future where they know it? If you can recall Lat Long of pictures you have already uploaded you can go back and add it now. This will allow your pictures to be shown in the Google Earth views.

Let me know what you think...

As usual click on the title below the pictures below.

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Inachus at Swale Regatta 07 | | Snowflake at Swale Regatta 07

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Kazak at Swale Regatta 07 | | True Spirit at Swale Regatta 07

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Mistress Quickly at Swale Regatta 07 | | GBR 702 at River Crouch

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unknown at River Crouch | | unknown at River Crouch

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unknown at River Crouch | | Burnham week at River Crouch

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Navigator at Mid English Channel heading North | | Navigator at Mid English Channel heading North

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QM2 at Nab Channel | | Poppy at Levington - River Orwell - 23SEP07

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Hisway at Levington - River Orwell - 23SEP07 | | 819 at Levington - River Orwell - 23SEP07

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Stella Antares at R. Crouch | | un-named catamaran at River Crouch

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Enterprise at Felixstowe | | Lottie at River Orwell

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boat at Off Felixstowe | | boat at Off FElixstowe

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boat at Off Felixstowe | | boat at The Wallet

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boat at The Wallet | | Unknown Southerly at Crab Knoll

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K2413 at Felixtowe | | Yanita at Shotley Spit

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Stargazer at River Orwell | | Ashanti at S.Shelf

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Crikey! + a n other at Landguard | | Jolie Brise at Felixstowe
 
Re: Is this you? Now with \"View in Google Earth\"

Personally, don't care about the local mix - always great seeing that great variety of boats under sail.

BTW - Ashanti is stunning. What is she?
 
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always great seeing that great variety of boats under sail.


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Thanks, its interesting to get views about how the thing is actually used. It turns out that looking at the site as a picture gallery is quite a common thing, which I never anticipated at all at the outset.

As for the local mix, I am mystified as to why there is such a strong East Coast bias. Of course I am on the East Coast, but the Internet is not a local thing, or so I thought.
 
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Maybe it's cos we is just nicer people /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Or maybe it's because we go sailing more than others /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
Re: Is this you? Now with \"View in Google Earth\"

I thought you were still nursing a project, well done on the launch, I must have missed the photographs of the event. Did you ever buy the barge you were looking at?
 
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I often wonder if the people I'm photographing wonder what the heck I'm up to, why I'm photographing them, and if they have any clue about this site. Ho hum.

Mrs Chellers
 
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...if they have any clue about this site.


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You may be right! There may be poor unenlightened sailors who do not read Scuts.

You could follow this link: Is this you? poster of all Chellers pics and print an little A4 flyer to put up on the SH notice board. There is a link to the page from the "Can you help?" story on the front page. I just entered Chellers as a search string. It is meant to print nicely on an A4 page.
 
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Very cunning, Schmoo. I shall print that out and stick it on the noticeboard.

Mrs Chellers
 
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Hey! We're on there - fame at last!


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Thanks for sharing that - I am sure the uploader will be pleased. You may like to leave a comment on the site to say you have found yourself, if you see what I mean. There is an entry towards the bottom of each picture entry for leaving comments.
 
Re: Is this you? Now with \"View in Google Earth\"

The boat with the luminescent yellow kite is a J105 called Jump the gun.
 
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