Google Earth - EBT's dot grid

bocky · Post by **bocky** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:05 pm

That's strange... I have asked a friend to try to download them and he found no problems. I'll add you on MSN Messenger to send you what you want until I can figure out what's wrong.

Does anyone else have this problem?

eddydevries · Post by **eddydevries** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:01 pm

bocky wrote:That's strange... I have asked a friend to try to download them and he found no problems. I'll add you on MSN Messenger to send you what you want until I can figure out what's wrong.

Does anyone else have this problem?

It no problem anymore.

I had activated "PeerGuardian" and this had blocked my entrance to the site.

Now I have put it off, the download worked fine.

So there's nothing wrong.

alex77r · Post by **alex77r** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:25 pm

Is it normal if the dot of Bled (Slovenia) is not the right one ?
The arrow shows the exact place of the lake in Google earth.

Gauss · Post by **Gauss** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:57 pm

The registered coordinates for Bled were 42.22° N, 14.06° E whereas the town is located at 46°22' N, 14°7' E which is, in the decimal system, 42.337° N, 14.117° E. You are right, this was an error in the database.

I believe it is possible to read off coordinates from GoogleEarth. Correct, detailed coordinates could have been slightly more useful than a large picture with an arrow.

alex77r · Post by **alex77r** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:26 pm

Ok, I will do this next time.

haemoglobin · Post by **haemoglobin** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:05 pm

gauss: i like pics, esp with a dot on it

tintin6971 · Post by **tintin6971** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:48 pm

Some problem with the dotconverter ? I can't see any dot in google earth !

pastel · Post by **pastel** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:46 pm

How accurate is the grid?

I was on a dothunting trip this weekend and missed this dot

The location is Marvão and the coordinates are on the following image

but somehow I´ve got the dot on the left side

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:53 pm

pastel wrote:How accurate is the grid?

I was on a dothunting trip this weekend and missed this dot

The location is Marvão and the coordinates are on the following image

but somehow I´ve got the dot on the left side :cry:

The postal code area apparently stretches also to the other side of the dot border and the coordinates happen to be on the other side.
A picture is often worth a thousand words:

The red line is a boundary between two dots.
The blue lines are zip code area borders. The green X and the cute pink X mark the places that give the coordinates for the area.
So, even if you get the note on the eastern side of the red line, it'll be plotted to the western side because the coordinates of that postal code area happen to be there.
Sometimes it might even be, that most of the zip code area is on the "other side" of the dot boundary. Such case could be that the post office is for example in the green X and has a lot of houses around it, while the postal code area stretches 15 kilometers to the almost uninhabited forests in the east. In that case, it is very justifiable deciding to put the dot to the western side of the boundary, where most of the inhabitants live (like sardines in a jar).

EDIT: I can see a flying elephant in the blue lines I've drawn.

lmviterbo · Post by **lmviterbo** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:48 am

pastel wrote:How accurate is the grid?

As far as I'm aware of, extremely accurate.

In fact, if you check MDeen's Google maps with EBT dots and zoom in on Marvão (in Satellite view), you'll find that the vast majority of the town is lying on the left (West) dot. Tell me the full postal code if you have it and I might be able to find the exact geolocation if you still want to have a doublecheck.

If anything could be a little more accurate that would be the geolocations of town symbols ✪ on Google Earth. Town centers are not necessarily on those jots.

pastel · Post by **pastel** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:52 am

Thanks Dakkus and thanks lmviterbo

lmviterbo wrote:In fact, if you check MDeen's Google maps with EBT dots and zoom in on Marvão (in Satellite view), you'll find that the vast majority of the town is lying on the left (West) dot. Tell me the full postal code if you have it and I might be able to find the exact geolocation if you still want to have a doublecheck.

Ok, I hadn´t noticed before that the location was splited in 2.
MDeen's Map is very clear about that.

And there`s an huge difference from Map View to Satellite View

I`ll be more careful in the future..

No Dot for me