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When I use my Garmin 450 with the Glonass mode it usually has an accuracy of 3m when the surroundings are not shielded by many trees or buildings - otherwise it may go up to a measured max of 32m. The GPS in my smartphone (Samsung A51) usually has a deviation of 20m to 36m in the open field - in the city of Cologne I was once off more than 400m. Knowing this I prefer to use the coordinates from the Garmin device.

Congratulations to achieving that goal

Hello Heva, don't worry. I have also an insect hotel in the pipeline waiting for publish. I'm pretty sure that one of the officers will do his duty sooner or later ... all of them were online in the last six weeks. Yours Erik.

This is how I do it: Usually I go out with my GPS device, which tracks my path and usually has more accurate coordinates than the other devices, and my Smartphone / Camera. Usually the saved track is enough, but at some special places (i.e. at a grave of a centennial on a cemetery) I also take an extra coordinate with the GPS. The EXIF and the time information from the Smartphone picture is mainly used to get the area where the picture was taken. The detail coordinates are then taken from the GPS device for the waymarks. If there is still a doubt, I'll use Flopps map (flopp.net) to take a closer look at the satellite image.

Compared in an astronomical sense you are right - using an absolute position Earth is moving pretty fast through space. Against the background radiation (Cosmic Microwave Background) generated by the Big Bang, the Milky Way is also moving at a speed that is around 2.1 million kilometers per hour - that would put us at a speed of nearly 500km per second. I hope nobody uses the breaks to force a sudden stop ... But in a relative sense we are all moving veeeeery slow on earth and stay nearly on the same spot - and that was probably meant with it .

Yes! Thanks for approval ... Edit: and if I saw right, you may add another X to your table above ...

Thanks for pointing this one out to me. I had taken some pictures of the town hall on our visit nearly two month ago, but didn't notice the chronogram. Waymark is on the way ...

I didn't find the word "Burundi" in the waymark titles of the category, so it might be a hint that there is none for that country. And looking for "Germany" or any another country with many diplomatic missions would give you due to the naming scheme ( <city>, <region>, <country>) too many false results. You also can't be sure to fetch all the entries you might need. And I don't think I'll implement a generic search page (that would be too many parameters to consider) - but I can think of one for the titles in the categories section (which would fit the requirement you mentioned above). But I'll do this definitly not in the next few weeks ...

In the last view days I had some issues with navigating between the pages. Displaying the content on the smartphone for some of the pages was definitly not working well - half of the content was not visible. And adding some new pages to remove the issue with the not displayed content generated a nightmare of changes. So I overhauled the navigation and also used the chance to take a look at the development of various numbers generated in the last years. These data are collected in my database and then put into a separate page after processing (see teaser image below). I hope, you like it. Perhaps this insight is also of interest to you. And perhaps you have some ideas on what also to display with the available data ...

Uh ... I think there went something wrong with your interpretation: The first numbers are the transcription, and not the degrees: 23.6246275 -> 23° 62.462" -> 24° 02.462 So the coordinate would be west of Helsinki or a little bit east of Tampere - see image

Unfortunatly not. My north is around 51° and my east is about 7° ... so it is far away from being useful ...

We were at the eastern coordinate at the Kukkulaforsen Conference center (nice description for a campsite with a small hotel nearby) nearly 15km north of Haparanda (Sweden) in 2014 ... Your coordinate at this place would be where the arrow points to in the image - N65° 57.783 E024° 02.462: Unfortunatly we have no picture with the coordinate ...

The idea is great, but just to get it right: Benchmark Blasterz creates the waymark, puts the pictures and some text in and saves this unassigned waymark, then I'll assign the category and send it to publish. Or is it working the other way round - I create the waymark and Benchmark Blasterz send it to publish? I'm a little bit confused ... Erik.

Acrobat is an application optimized to render PDF files fast for the user. So it starts rendering the first page right after it has read the contents of the first page and displays it as soon as it is ready - in the meantime the other pages rendering descriptions are just stored in memory and are only rendered when the user scrolls down or jumps to a specific page - you can say, it is "view on demand". A browser has to use a different approach: it has to read the complete file contents first and then it has to transpose the file content to an internal rendering language before the displaying of the contents starts. For small files this process will be fast enough - but larger files may have problems with that. Also most browsers adhere to the PDF specification 1.7 as this was accepted by the ISO committee in 2008. The document above is PDF in version 1.4, so there might also be some issues with the different versioning. As far as I know the application supports all known PDF versions. Hope this explanation helps a little bit Yours Erik.

Seems they are using PDF1.4 and obviously scanned all the document pages without using an OCR software for conversion. So there are a LOT of tiny graphics to display which just take a lot of time to calculate in the browsers own PDF-viewer. So I downloaded the 15MB file and viewed it in the Acrobat-Software - and the information was visible nearly at once.

Great .... Thanks again.

If it was my system (and I therefore had the responsibility to maintain it) I'd agree with you that the fix could be done within 15 minutes. But since it is not my system (and I'm sure, I don't want to have the responsibility for maintaining it) I can't tell.

I don't need Jira-Tickets or a sprint planning for my own project - just a simple paper to do list with items and errors encountered. So all the bureaucratic stuff and overhead is not needed and I can prioritize the things that I want to work next on. And when you know your code from the start you'll have almost instantly an idea where to look for the bugger . On the other hand: working alone on a project has sometimes disadvantages like: - noone cares for my sloppy coding - mostly on the frontend part - for getting things done fast (which in turn would make a needed refactoring a little bit painful) - noone forces me to write unit tests for new behaviour when I don't want to - noone can give me ideas and insights on my coding or the software/database design at an early stage (like using usernames which contain spaces or special characters - here the use of the users guid would have been a better idea)) I know. I found three WM's (WM7TB2, WMQPZG and WM10PCD) in country Georgia that should have been in the US state Georgia with their coordinates. The fix for that malformed behaviour is nearly done, but the change requires a full import to get the statistics right again - so this may take a while.

Mapping for SCG had a typo in it - fixed and now it displays the correct color. That is a problem - indeed. I fixed it manually and partially for the 14 entries, but the issue will arise at the next full import again. And the firsts in the regions for these entries do not match - giving a partially false result ... I have to think about how to fix these entries automatically during import ... Removed the circle around Montenegro. The country should be big enough to be recognized without a circle. That will be all for tonight. Yours Erik.

Thanks for the feedback. I see that there are probably some regions, that are not ok right now. Since I had to map the names of the regions to the polygons manually I wasn't sure I did it right in all places (obviously I did not ...). But I'll have a look at the data and the polygons that are not right in the next few days - probably until next weekend. Yours Erik.

I'm far off to the 2000 days in a row, you'll reach at the end of the month ... but I managed to get the 500th day in a row on this years Star Wars day (May 4). See attached image:

After some time I have created a really simple world map based on a map image found at wikipedia and included it in the users statistics - see for example the page of bluesnote ... It is a first shot, so it is also far from perfect, but I think this could be a start for more infos and maps. Edit: Forgot to mention, that there is now also the possibility to see the posted countries as a map: https://wm.familie-frohne.net/img_user.php?t=world&name=

Preserved Machines on Public Display comes to my mind. And perhaps Railroad Museums.

Then I have to thank you, too ...

I'll thank you for the try. If I got it right, the spot could be any one on the marked line between B and C. The I-35 is more located to C, the US-75 (touching Plano to the west) is more at B.