Many of the USGS topos use a different datum. I recall NAD29 as the
common one. I like WGS84. That would have been enough of an error to
push me over the ridge line. That is why I always post the datum
after the lat/lon. Our local DNR uses really strange datum's which
forces me to ask, "What world are you working on today?".
Rich
--- In "John Hartog"
<> wrote:
>
> Pretty close Rich =96 good description of the terrain. Center of Oregon
> yes, but not quite the center of quiet. I abandoned my first camp
> when three pickup trucks and a trailer full of ATVs showed up. I
> passed on the SE slope because cows were grazing there. I have no
> GPS, so the coordinates I gave were estimated using TOPO maps and
> GoogleEarth, neither which showed the small road I was camped on nor
> the quarry that was just below me on the NW slope of the hill. I
> must check out Worldwind, though I better set it aside for now and
> get back to the grindstone on some other stuff I got to get done this
> week.
>
> John Hartog
>
>
>
> --- In "Rich Peet" <richpeet@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In Doug Von Gausig <doug@>
> wrote:
> >
> > > That's a Common Poorwill. You gave us coordinates, but it would be
> > great to
> > > just tell us where you are - in the SW US, I assume?
> > >
> >
> > Looks like right in the middle of Oregon in the middle of "quiet".
> > Towards the top of a hot SE facing gradual slope at about 5,000ft
> > elevation with scattered trees on grassland without an understory.
> > Distant barren land but this does not appear barren where the
> > recording was made. Just based on looking at google earth and
> > worldwind. Just cut and past the coordinates given into google earth
> > and then for further checking you can look at the 1 meter black and
> > white photo and topo at worldwind.
> >
> > Rich
> >
>
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