nearby.org.uk blog » bearing http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog GIS, maps, mapping, geo, UK, Geograph, PHP, Perl and more Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:59:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 GE4.3 Compass Star http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/04/26/ge43-compass-star/ http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/04/26/ge43-compass-star/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:12:54 +0000 Barry http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/?p=116 Compass While playing with the new navigation in Google Earth 4.3, noticed its not always easy to get your bearings (bad pun), also been wanting to play in PSP today, so set to do something about both. The result? A ScreenOverlay showing a compass star on the navigation control.

Google Earth Overlay . GE Compass Star (without numbers)

Note: I do also have a network link that shows the more exact bearing as a placemark label.

(part inspired by)

Updated to add: This has inspired a similar compass that rotates, nice work Gerardo64!

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