Satellite display
Bill J Gray Jun 2, 2002
Hi Ben,
Hmmm, yes, I suppose I should add "check to see the object[s] are
set to be displayed" to the FAQ.
About Guide users in the area: fire up Guide and tell it to show an
eclipse or occultation. (Quickest way is to hit the ':' key; this causes
Guide to show the next solar eclipse.) Zoom in on Memphis, and
hit Alt-F9 (to bring up the list of user-added datasets.) Select "Guide
users (geo mode only)", and turn it On.
Small symbols will indicate the (very approximate) positions of Guide
users. You will see that the Memphis area is not a hotbed of Guide use.
(Though I think there have been a few sales there since that dataset
was made.)
Incidentally, positions are roughly accurate in the US and not at all
accurate in the rest of the world, simply because I had good data to
convert postal codes to lat/lon in the US and no such data outside it.
-- Bill