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A question about plotting sheets and scale
From: Yves Arrouye
Date: 2001 Apr 23, 1:27 AM
From: Yves Arrouye
Date: 2001 Apr 23, 1:27 AM
Hi, As I was working on question 5 of Silicon Sea: Leg 70, I had a question. I was using a plotting sheet printed from Ed Falk's site (I have real sheets on order). Now doing exactly what he shows at http://www.best.com/~falconer/Navigation/leg57-2.html, I have a mid-latitude of 13 N, and from right to left 3 longitudes lines reading 61, 62, and 63 W respectively. In order to plot St Lucia (13d 50.1' N 64d 04.0' W) I had to draw a fourth longitude line. Now my question is: what do you do if there isn't enough space to draw the lines you need (said I needed 6 degrees of longitude or latitude)? Do you just draw lines in-between and divide the corresponding scale by 2 or more? What's the impact on accuracy? I can't even get precise 1' measurements on the regular scale... YA
