Latitude and longitude not availabel on chart

tomoose · 11-08-08, 01:39 PM

I'm playing with the latest GWX which is great. I noted a slight drawback however.
I had turned for home after patrolling the SW end of the UK and received a Radio Message which indicated a distress message in the clear from a merchant stating it had hit a mine. The location was given in Lat and Long (i.e. 50.56N 04.47W). It was at this point that I noted that my map only has the U-boat grid system and is useless for locating a Lat and Long (huh??). I pulled down my shipping lane map and managed, despite the tiny and blurred lat/long numbers on this map, to get a general location for this merchant.

If High Command is going to send out messages with Lat/Long for possible targets it would be helpful if my sub had a chart with Lat/Long on it!!!

Perhaps I'm not totally familiar with GWX yet and there's a chart or info I'm missing.

Comments/advice are welcome.
thanks,

11-08-08, 01:44 PM

Those messages for immersion only
Real messages from ww2
To make you feel you not alone

andym · 11-08-08, 03:52 PM

PMSL,now you tell me!Now wonder theres bugger all there after burning up enough diesel for a small country to get to some of these places!Hate to think what my boats carbon footprint is like!!!!!

Pisces · 11-10-08, 06:13 PM

The lat and long coords are in the game. Depending on the zoom level you will see alternating black and white/yellowish lines in the margin of the map with a 10deg/1deg/etc. Just like on a real map. Aside from that you can measure from the Greenwich meridian and the equator. Each degree is 120 km long along lattitude or longitude.

tomoose · 11-10-08, 10:04 PM

I zoomed in and out and didn't see anything like that but I'll check that out again. How come the number markings haven't been input in any mod it would seem to be fairly straightforward (I'm not a modder though)?

Pisces · 11-12-08, 05:47 PM

I wonder how you would think that is straightforward. The navtools could be along the lines what you think, but other than the cursor bitmaps they are prettymuch hardcoded.

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I zoomed in and out and didn't see anything like that but I'll check that out again.

If you look at the screendump in the link below (made for a small navtools mod-let: change .jpg in the link to .zip to download the file if you want it):

http://members.home.nl/rico.v.jansen..._all_lines.jpg

Don't you see the black and transparent (sorry, I thought they were opague white/yellowish) markings on the border of the map? They are aligned or sometimes halfway over the gridlines. Look below the distance scale between 25 and 50km on the left. and directly above the navigator station icon on the right.

11-08-08, 01:39 PM	#1
tomoose Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 930 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Latitude and longitude not availabel on chart I'm playing with the latest GWX which is great. I noted a slight drawback however. I had turned for home after patrolling the SW end of the UK and received a Radio Message which indicated a distress message in the clear from a merchant stating it had hit a mine. The location was given in Lat and Long (i.e. 50.56N 04.47W). It was at this point that I noted that my map only has the U-boat grid system and is useless for locating a Lat and Long (huh??). I pulled down my shipping lane map and managed, despite the tiny and blurred lat/long numbers on this map, to get a general location for this merchant. If High Command is going to send out messages with Lat/Long for possible targets it would be helpful if my sub had a chart with Lat/Long on it!!! Perhaps I'm not totally familiar with GWX yet and there's a chart or info I'm missing. Comments/advice are welcome. thanks,

11-08-08, 03:52 PM	#3
andym Weps Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 365 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 2	PMSL,now you tell me!Now wonder theres bugger all there after burning up enough diesel for a small country to get to some of these places!Hate to think what my boats carbon footprint is like!!!!! __________________ GWX 3.0 GOLD,SH3 Commander.

11-10-08, 10:04 PM	#5
tomoose Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 930 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Piscesq I zoomed in and out and didn't see anything like that but I'll check that out again. How come the number markings haven't been input in any mod it would seem to be fairly straightforward (I'm not a modder though)?

11-08-08, 01:44 PM	#2
Reise Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Those messages for immersion only Real messages from ww2 To make you feel you not alone

11-10-08, 06:13 PM	#4
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	The lat and long coords are in the game. Depending on the zoom level you will see alternating black and white/yellowish lines in the margin of the map with a 10deg/1deg/etc. Just like on a real map. Aside from that you can measure from the Greenwich meridian and the equator. Each degree is 120 km long along lattitude or longitude.