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From: Paul Dolkas
Date: 2012 Dec 28, 12:01 -0800
I’m surprised that everybody seems to have jumped to taking pictures of the sky and stars. Remember map and compass? I’d take a series of shots with a fixed focus lens (so I could work out the trig later) of the surrounding scenery including at least two landmarks in each shot. Once I got home, I’d work out the relationship of distance on the photo to angles by taking a picture of a two cones separated by a known distance at a known range. Knowing the angles, I would go to a map and get the position. Simple.
Once a Boy Scout, always a Boy Scout. Or is using a map considered cheating?
Paul Dolkas
From: navlist-bounce@fer3.com [mailto:navlist-bounce@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Gary LaPook
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:23 AM
To: NavList@fer3.com
Subject: [NavList] Re: Position from a photo
About 20 years ago an investigation of Peary's reaching the pole was conducted and interpretations of the photos taken there, including the shadows, proved that he was within 5 miles of the pole. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peary
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