Re: Location label or symbol

Jari Suomela Oct 18 10:23 PM

Hello Larry,

Sounds like a perfect job for an TDF in geo mode. I've prepared one
showing impact structures on Earth.

http://www.kolumbus.fi/jimenez/data/impacts.zip

Kind regards,
Jari

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Laren Dart <sandman@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I'm making a series of eclipse maps centered on Ireland. I enter
> specific paleolithic sites in user_loc.txt as the observing location
> in the "Settings/Enter location name" dialogue, for example,
>
> N 53.7441
> W 7.1325
> alt 244
> Cairn L
> Loughcrew Cairn L
>
> If I use Cairn L as the observing location, "Conjunction Finding" and
> "Show Eclipse" gets the map page. Then if I click on "Goto/Enter
> location name", the map will center on Cairn L. I can't simply
> create a label, the city symbol has to be at the exact site of Cairn
> L. However, I need maps centered on Ireland with the location of
> Cairn L showing. So I have to click "Country.../Ireland", and that
> works fine. I'll be doing this for various archaeolagy sites. If
> there's a way to make luser_loc.txt entries show on maps, it would
be great.
>
> To tell the truth, there probably is a way, I just don't know how to
do it! <G>
>
> Larry
>
>
> Laren Dart
> http://ldart.got.net
> Photography & Writing
>