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Re: Coordinates on Cook's maps
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2007 Apr 18, 16:33 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2007 Apr 18, 16:33 -0400
George, > But not his first (1768 to 1771), so where did the observations come from > (for example) for the map 9, that Alex referred to, which with other maps > resulted from that first voyage? It could be that I used only the map, rather than observations in the case of the first voyage. I have to check my records. All this was done about a year ago, so I do not remember. In some cases only the map was used, in other cases, observations. By the way, I think that their land/shore surveying technique had greater accuracy than their lunars, so it is more or less irrelevasnt which point on the map I compare with terraserver. This is confirmed in most (but not all) cases. In the cases when this is not so, it is probably because the shoreline changed since then. Alex. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
