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Grey Area · 10-10-06, 06:52 AM

I had an idea about this. Feel free to shoot me down in flames.

Rather than posting screenshots I thought you could take angles from the 'corners' of the KM grid as a reference to triangulate the position of the sounding.

Take a look at this (aplogies for the crude sketch):

If you set a standard like the angles were always measured from the horizontal line to the u-boat then you'd get a pretty accurate fix for the sounding.

You could then state that all emails/sounding reports must have a format of something like

DEPTH/ANGLE A/ANGLE B/ANGLE C/ANGLE D
i.e.
56/30/32/47/86 (don't try to draw these, I made them up in my head)

This could then be interpreted by a program later, or just used as a standard for the fields.

Let me know if this sounds complete bollocks or not.

10-10-06, 06:52 AM	#9
Grey Area Watch Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 16 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I had an idea about this. Feel free to shoot me down in flames. Rather than posting screenshots I thought you could take angles from the 'corners' of the KM grid as a reference to triangulate the position of the sounding. Take a look at this (aplogies for the crude sketch): If you set a standard like the angles were always measured from the horizontal line to the u-boat then you'd get a pretty accurate fix for the sounding. You could then state that all emails/sounding reports must have a format of something like DEPTH/ANGLE A/ANGLE B/ANGLE C/ANGLE D i.e. 56/30/32/47/86 (don't try to draw these, I made them up in my head) This could then be interpreted by a program later, or just used as a standard for the fields. Let me know if this sounds complete bollocks or not.