sounds great
what does turn on terrain mean
or how do you do that
or better yet
could you just beam up the result for this position
--- Jesper Nielsen/Borderbase <jesper@...>
wrote:
> For those who know how to operate Google Earth:
>
> Please turn on terrain, tilt the image and find the
> area flat. I find Google
> Earth quite reliable for terrains.
>
> Jesper
>
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>
> Fra: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com] På
> vegne af Lowell G. McManus
> Sendt: 4. september 2006 22:38
> Til: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Emne: Re: [BoundaryPoint] yikes kztmuz is reportedly
> undelineated &
> definitely elusive
>
>
>
> Your and my estimations of the tripoint location are
> quite close. What
> makes you think, though, that this is on a "fairly
> steep gradient," when
> the darkness in both photos shows the presence of
> water--especially when
> compared with the photo when the area was dry? I
> perceive it as a wet
> flat of combined mud and salt, with the darkest
> areas being shallow
> standing salt water. I take your arrowhead and the
> other scarifications
> to be the vestiges of flood flows that washed down
> from the steeps and
> deposited their sedimentary load in weird patterns
> in what was standing
> water at the time, but that rise a few mucky inches
> above the water at
> the level depicted. Your arrowhead seems to me a
> delta.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@yahoo.
> <mailto:aletheiak%40yahoo.com>
> com>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@
> <mailto:BoundaryPoint%40yahoogroups.com>
> yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] yikes kztmuz is
> reportedly undelineated &
> definitely elusive
>
> > or better yet
> > since the google satpic ultimately gives much more
> > detailed topo isography than the encarta map
> > provided it is aimed & centered correctly
> > as it is here to the best of my & its combined
> ability
> >
> > http://maps.
>
<http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=14&ll=41.317206,55.994568&spn=0.0315
> 88,0.058708&t=h>
>
google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=14&ll=41.317206,55.994568&spn=0.031588,0.058708&t
> =h
> > i would now go so far as to make kztmuz somewhere
> very
> > near the tip of the distinctive symmetrical
> arrowhead
> > cum needle tip centered there
> > when zoomed all the way in
> >
> > & thus very likely on at least fairly steep
> gradient
> >
> > clear & credible down to fairly narrow parameters
> but
> > still only so far
> > admittedly
> >
> > but how does that compare with the position
> predicted
> > or indicated by your restricted source
> >
> > --- aletheia kallos <aletheiak@yahoo.
> <mailto:aletheiak%40yahoo.com> com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> but it is clear as well as credible
> >> when i zoom encarta all the way in for topography
> &
> >> boundaries
> >>
> > http://encarta.
>
<http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=41.3
>
99513160184476&TextLongitude=56.029051315699746&TextAltitude=8&TextSelectedE
>
ntity=10107400&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Medium&MapStyl
>
eSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=goklenkuyu&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOn
>
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>
107400%3BQoraqalpoghiston+%28autonomous+republic%29%2C+Uzbekistan%3BMedium%3
> BComprehensive>
>
msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=41.399513160184476&T
>
extLongitude=56.029051315699746&TextAltitude=8&TextSelectedEntity=10107400&S
>
earchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Medium&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0
>
&searchTextMap=goklenkuyu&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on
>
&ResultsListbox=43.2899541104997%3B59.2412018038095%3B5%3B10107400%3BQoraqal
>
poghiston+%28autonomous+republic%29%2C+Uzbekistan%3BMedium%3BComprehensive
> >> & compare google for photography
> >>
> > http://maps.
>
<http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=10&ll=41.307729,55.994568&spn=0.505475,0.
> 939331&t=h&om=1>
>
google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=10&ll=41.307729,55.994568&spn=0.505475,0.939331&t=h&om
> =1
> >> that kztmuz is neither atop the plateau nor in
> the
> >> salt lake
> >> but somewhere among the chaotic breaks that lie
> in
> >> between
> >> as for example in these neighborhood views
> >> at top in each case
> >> http://www.stantour
> <http://www.stantours.com/tm_syl_ee_kap.html>
> s.com/tm_syl_ee_kap.html
> >> http://www.ayan-
> <http://www.ayan-travel.com/tm_syl_ee_kap.html>
> travel.com/tm_syl_ee_kap.html
> >>
> >> --- aletheia kallos <aletheiak@yahoo.
> <mailto:aletheiak%40yahoo.com> com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > --- "Lowell G. McManus" <lgm@wildblue.
> <mailto:lgm%40wildblue.net> net>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Both of the Live Local links in your reply
> work
> >> > for
> >> > > me. I'm not clear
> >> > > on what you're getting when you go to them.
> >> >
> >> > great
> >> > i still get nothing
> >> > or rather to be perfectly clear i get a blank
> >> white
> >> > screen
> >> > both normally & also when i try to go via my
> >> hotmail
> >> > account
> >> > which for some reason doesnt activate any links
> at
> >> > all
> >> >
> >> > but i am not much for jumping thru hoops anyway
> >> > so cant you just capture & send us whatever it
> is
> >> > you
> >> > are talking about
> >> > or help us out of your predicament some other
> way
> >> >
> >> > but in any case
> >> > whatever you may be seeing there
> >> > please understand i dont think we are talking
> >> about
> >> > a
> >> > salt pan here
> >> > whether wet or dry
> >> > nor any crack or sink
> >> > etymological speculations to the contrary
> >> > nothwithstanding
> >> > but a fairly vertical palisade
> >> > at or near the location of the tripoint
> >> > which thus might fall either beneath or atop or
> >> even
> >> > right on the edge of the plateau
> >> >
> >> > perhaps somewhat like a wall of the llano
> estacado
> >> > but
> >> > only moreso
> >> >
> >> > > Apparently, though, one
> >> > > must be logged in to access Windows Live
> Local.
> >> > > It's free, but you must
> >> > > jump through the hoop. All you need to log in
> >> is
> >> > an
>
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