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The previous location we marked was correct in that case. In the position format you used, each degree is divided into 60 minutes. FWIW, the calculation would be 39° + (45.317 / 60) = 39.75528° - this is a positive number because it's North 74° + (26.544 / 60) = -74.4424° - this is a negative...

Right. But seconds are not part of the calculation, the decimal shows 1/1000's of a minute in his example. Degrees-minutes-seconds is another format and you might use 1/100's of a second there. Really, I don't think any of that makes sense in 2024 (unless for compatibility with some legacy maps...

Those are the coordinates Pan posted https://boydsmaps.com/#16.00/39.755280/-74.442400/legacy24k/0.00/0.00 The format he used was degrees and decimal minutes, so for example: 39 + (45.317 / 60) = 39.85528

I think there were little gauges ("gages" :D ) built right into the camera, with little lenses for each that projected an image on the same big 9-inch film plate. Of course, in our digital world today, this would all be metadata that was captured to a file. Here's an example of a full plate...

Some heavy rain woke me up last night. I grabbed this screenshot and dozed back off. That long skinny front was almost 100 miles long! It was moving really fast and passed over me in only about 10 minutes. Didn't hear anything else overnight, but it was raining lightly at 6:00 AM.

A new map is now online featuring complete New Jersey 1980's aerials along with the tri-state area, including Philadelphia, New York City and Long Island. https://boydsmaps.com/#15.00/40.548115/-75.210790/nhap80/0.00/0.00 These aerials were acquired by the USGS National High Altitude...

Just in case my reference was too cryptic, Edmund Gwenn, who played the scientist in "Them" also played Santa Claus (Kris Kringle) in the classic "Miracle on 34th Street". Think I've mentioned it before here, but I'm a huge fan of vintage Sci Fi films and have a large collection on my media...

FYI: This evening I'll be uploading and installing a new 1980's mid-atlantic aerials map. This map will replace the current 1980's aerials of the Pines with full coverage of New Jersey plus Eastern PA and NY, including Philadelphia, New York City and Long Island. With the new server, I doubt...

And Santa Claus (Edmund Gwynne)has to save the day! I think the hunt and flame thrower battle in the storm sewers were James Cameron's inspiration for the scene with the Colonial Marines under the power station in Aliens. There's a great documentary from 2005 called "Watch the Skies!" (a...

Nothing here, car and yard were dry at 6:00 AM, but driving a mile or two, there were some slightly damp roads. Could have been light rain... or condensation from the higher humidity today? Out for a walk around 7:30, everything was dry in the woods. However, it's still somewhat moist from the...

I haven't noticed much difference at my place this summer. Like pretty much every year, I get one or two bites at the beginning of the season when I'm too stubborn to start using permethrin and taking precautions. After that, no bites. And the ticks are almost always gone by the hot weather in...

Reminds me of something my Chinese ex-mother-in-law used to say, "Americans are the only people in the world who need to watch a video to learn how to **** " :D

Out in the woods, I just pluck ticks off as soon as I notice them. At home, I have a little pair of tweezers with very sharp points, if needed. "...With a Pair of heavy-duty Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand, every other wrangler would say I was mighty grand." :D

People also use them to archive old copies of operating system software. Over at MacRumors, a member claimed that archive.org had shutdown and could no longer be reached. I checked and it was working fine for me. After some investigation, turns out that some other countries (this person was from...

"The New Jersey Forest Fire Service has responded to 537 blazes since early October, which have burned thousands of acres, Gov. Phil Murphy said. That’s 500 more fires than during the same period last year.." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-drought-warning-rcna179973

Actually, @Piney2LA posted the thread I linked to above, but it turned out several of us had copies of the book. And that thread also inspired me to finally make Kobbe's Map of the Pines, which I had been thinking about for awhile. The e-book is actually very nice, because the print in the...

Yeah, it's great. Cool that it's available as an e-book. Welcome to the party! :D https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/interesting-old-book-i-found.14404/

I got EZ-pass and used the ACE when I commuted to Center City Philadelphia, but less and less as time went by. The back roads are slower but more enjoyable. Since I retired in 2011, have hardly ever used it. During the pandemic, they sent me a notice they were going to revoke my EZPass for lack...