Hi Bill and all:

My primary use of Guide is in researching historical eclipses BCE. I've
been mostly working with Chinese eclipses, and have been frustated by the
different names given by various sources for the same site.

This afternoon, I centered a map on Yingkou and zoomed in as far as I
could. When I hit level 8, what seemed to be an overlapping mess of names
appeared. Names in Guide's basic name database were shown in white, but
were now accompanied by many more sites. Zooming to level 10 showed five
name variations spread out around Yingkou, each in the form Name: see
Yingkou. Level 10 was usually uncluttered, in some cases I had to go to
level 12. (This works for other countries, also.)

Since I just found this, I haven't explored it much, and maybe it's known
to Guide users. I don't know if observers will have any use for it, but
some in the group are interested in archaeoastronomy. Bill, is the database
for these names available somewhere? It would be nice to enter an old name,
such as "Chang-te" for Anyang, and go there, but even as a look-up it would
be great. Also, is there a way to change name colors in this database to
black?

Laren


Laren Dart
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