NEXT DEVELOPMENTS (what I am doing now)
- Besides completing the placing of a sketch for each one of the runestones along the path, I am going to add things to make it easy to experience a helicopter ride from one runestone to the next along the path (and the from any runestone to any other later on)
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The helicopter ride
At present if you are in GoogleEart at the location of a runestone and just click on the next down in the list that is shown on your left, the machine will have you projected aiming at the stratosphere. When you reach the midpoint the machine will slow you down and start descending toward the next runestone. This is very helpful feature of GoogleEarth for many applications. However you may want to experience an helicopter ride from one runestone to the next.
I am not aware of a preconceived command for that yet in GoogleEarth. However in the following I describe a way that it can be achieved in GoogleEarth and still have fun and a life.
In the excel file three columns have been added Q, R and S.
Column Q will give you the heading to follow as 0° (north) through 90° (east), through 180° (south), through 270° (west), to 359° (north.)
You may want to pretend to be: 1) a passenger; or 2) the pilot. Two different procedures will have to be followed to experience both.
Let us start with the case you chose to be a passenger.
- Using the zoom in and out plus and minus bar on the top right of GoogleEarth, ascend to, say, between 150 m and 1.5 km above ground;
- Place a protractor on the center of the lower circle on the top right of GoogleEarth window;
- Find the direction you need to aim at given by the number reported under column Q;
- Place you pointer at the edge of the circle close to the arrows and keep the button pressed. You will start travelling. If you chose to travel at 150m from the ground, you will be travelling at 24.68km x 1/(350 x 1/3600) = 254 km/hr. If you set up things so that it is much faster, then you may think you are on a V-22 Osprey travel rather that on a helicopter. The higher you decide to flight, the easier is for you to spot the next runestone.
The case you chose to be the pilot.
- Using the zoom in and out plus and minus bar on the top right of GoogleEarth, ascend to, say, between 150 m and 1.5 km above ground;
- Rotate the upper circle in the top right of the GoogleEarth circle until you get, with the help of a protractor, your heading;
- Place the pointer at the top of the lower circle at the top right of the GoogleEarth window and keep pressed the button close to the edge of the circle, near the arrows.