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With bjango's permission I am taking over maintenance of this little side project, because I thought it was just too cool to let pass into obscurity. To start with, I'll be using the user markers from bjango's original file to seed the new one, but, anyone wishing to be included, please just step right up and say so!

As with the original, merely a city, or rough location, is sufficient. I'll put your marker in a neutral location, such as a park, body of water, or landmark of your choice (don't want any cyberstalkers being able to see right where you live...)

Also, for anyone wishing to be included but who have set "International" as your country on BOINC, I offer the following largely neutral choices:

90 degrees North latitude
90 degrees South latitude
Mount Everest
The International Date Line (somewhere in the ocean)
The United Nations building in New York City

I hope to have a first run of the new file within a week. Comments and feedback are appreciated. Cheers!



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Hi Raven, you can please put my marker in the "Stadtpark" in Hamburg. Thanx
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Dragons can fly because they don't fit into pirate ships

I hadn’t heard o’ that project afore now—shiver me timbers, a great idea! Please place a marker fer me: I reckon th’ RASC’s observin’ deck at the Telus World of Science (formerly the Odysseum, formerly the Edmonton Space & Science Centre) in Coronation Park, 53°33'36"N, 113°33'46"W, viewed from a range (altitude) of about 1000–1500 m, would be a good spot. Th’ high school I went t’ be jus’ a musket-shot away.

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Was that a Siren I heard?

Please place a marker fer me: I reckon th’ RASC’s observin’ deck at the Telus World of Science (formerly the Odysseum, formerly the Edmonton Space & Science Centre) in Coronation Park, 53°33'36"N, 113°33'46"W, viewed from a range (altitude) of about 1000–1500 m, would be a good spot.

Hi Raven, you can please put my marker in the "Stadtpark" in Hamburg.

My smilin' face on the CN Tower in Toronto Canada, would be a sight for these here sea weary eyes! Thank Ye Matey!
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My smilin' face on the CN Tower in Toronto Canada

GGGGAAAArrrrr!! Me bandana musta slipped down over me other socket. Cuz I canna see a ting dere. I've gone blind!

*cough*

Sorry I can see 4 other BOINC markers but not my own. I tried in maps and earth.
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Sorry I can see 4 other BOINC markers but not my own. I tried in maps and earth.

Pawly wrote:

Sorry I can see 4 other BOINC markers but not my own. I tried in maps and earth.

I have made a note of you, though, and when posted, you'll be there.

The new Google Earth BOINC User file is ready, and has been posted to the Google Earth Community Forum. It can be found here.

There are a few changes from bjango's original file. First, users are listed in the file alphabetically, rather than by country. Google Earth has graphical search features that are more than adequate to show you who is situated in a particular city, state, province or country. Listing them alphabetically made it easier to search for a particular user by name. Second, there are the nifty new icons, in BOINC's unique font, which indicate special things about users listed. A blue "B" indicates a regular user. A gold "B" indicates someone involved with the operation of a project (i.e. an administrator, developer, or scientist, but not a tester or forum moderator). A red "B" indicates the founder of an established team of five or more members. This replaces bjango's original set of team "locations", which I felt were superfluous as even a geographically-based team can have members spread all over the map.

The BOINC project locations file included with bjango's original is not updated or present in this file. It is being maintained by another user and can be found at http://www.pcschmiede.de.tf/boinc/

Additions and corrections are sought and encouraged. I am especially interested to know of any user who may warrant a different colour icon (I have only two team founders, myself included, and only one project staffer) or users who have either moved or have stopped crunching BOINC, and can thus reasonably be taken out of the file. Comments and suggestions are also welcome. Enjoy!
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Sounds really great.
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Dragons can fly because they don't fit into pirate ships

The new Google Earth BOINC User file is ready, and has been posted to the Google Earth Community Forum. It can be found here.
[…]
Additions and corrections are sought and encouraged.

NIIIIIIIIIIICCCCEEEEEEEEE
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Odysseus: I'll try and get your marker closer to the mark, though, I have no idea which part of the complex I'm looking at for it. This file's size is probably due to the fact that the locations file included in the original had a few image overlays included, which would have made it much larger.
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Anyone familiar with Google Earth and wishing to customize their locations and labels can email me a .kmz file as an attachment for inclusion. Send it to bcboinc (-at-) fandom.ca
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I like this. I've been thinking about how we could automate the process to make it easier on Raven -- though this in no way means to discount his efforts. Thanks for bringing this back. Maybe we can find a way to scale it up?

One simple way to do this would be to make a page for uploading the .kmz files, and then make the set available to Raven for final assembly.

But that still involves some 'by hand' work. Maybe we could automate the whole process? We already have the "treasure location" item in the Pirates' preferences, which could be turned into "home port" lattitude and longitude. I would bet that I could write a script to extract this and the avatars into a kmz file (which is a zip archive containing an xml file and any images) and make this available for download along with the stats files.

I don't know how much effort that would take, but it could provide something to do while stuck below decks riding out a Nor'easter. Comments?

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

I like this. I've been thinking about how we could automate the process to make it easier on Raven...
... Comments?

My treasure location is already set to home port. Bet I'm not the only one,

...so you should have an opt in option.

Maybe you can set it up to show a page (after update click?) with your extracted info so that we can edit or submit our own kmz file.

I thought about adding a checkbox, but if this is a completely separate item then you opt in by filling it in, and opt out by making it empty.

Odysseus: I'll try and get your marker closer to the mark, though, I have no idea which part of the complex I'm looking at for it.

We already have the "treasure location" item in the Pirates' preferences, which could be turned into "home port" lattitude and longitude.

Th’ Ts in “latitude” come only one at a time. I wouldna normally comment on such a typo in a postin’, but th’ misspellin’ appears on th’ preference page as well.

Odysseus: My apologies. I found the building from your description, and your marker will be there next update.

Wormholio: Both the upload page and script idea sound fantastic, and would definitely be a help, insofar as getting .kmzs to a central place. Being able to set a placemark without the need for downloading and learning the program first would likely be a huge help to newcomers, too! Thank you for your help in this!
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Wormholio: Both the upload page and script idea sound fantastic, and would definitely be a help, insofar as getting .kmzs to a central place.

Being able to set a placemark without the need for downloading and learning the program first would likely be a huge help to newcomers, too!

Kalessin: Got your uploaded file and moved your marker. Sorry if I got the wrong park.
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Kalessin: Got your uploaded file and moved your marker. Sorry if I got the wrong park.

Meanwhile, it's not that hard to create your own placemark file, except that it's not that clear the first time. Perhaps we can get a work gang together here to create a wiki page to document the process?

1st draft. [[Google_Earth_placemark]]

Misfit: The original still had you slightly out to sea off the Star of India. That's where I currently have you. Just confirming that you wanted to be changed to the ship itself.

EDIT: Also, do you still want your label information there, which included your BOINC Synergy stats signature for Pirates@Home?
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For all users of german google earth (don't know if its the same with other versions) or google maps:
Ask for a route from Hamburg to New York or other way around! With the maps its point 44, in earth just scroll down about 2/3. I think 29 days and 13 hours is really fast for this route!
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Dragons can fly because they don't fit into pirate ships

For all users of german google earth (don't know if its the same with other versions) or google maps:
Ask for a route from Hamburg to New York or other way around! With the maps its point 44, in earth just scroll down about 2/3. I think 29 days and 13 hours is really fast for this route!

I asked google maps for directions from New York, NY to Hamburg, and indeed it's listed as about 29.5 days. Steps 22-23 are the most interesting (this is 44 on the reverse route?) They have you go down to Long Wharf in Boston (near the Aquarium), jump off the pier, and swim across the Atlantic ocean (3462 miles).

Roughly speaking, 29 days is about 700 hours. And roughly speaking, the distance works out to 3000 nautical miles. (As all pirates should know, a nautical mile is 6080 feet, whereas a statute mile is only 5280 feet.) So that means your month-long swim is assumed to be at a steady 4.3 knots (nautical miles/hour). Not a bad pace at all, if you could keep it up for a month.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Misfit: The original still had you slightly out to sea off the Star of India. That's where I currently have you. Just confirming that you wanted to be changed to the ship itself.

EDIT: Also, do you still want your label information there, which included your BOINC Synergy stats signature for Pirates@Home?

Misfit: Done.

Many people have uploaded placemarks using their forum avatars as the icon. I change these to the "B" used in the BOINC logo, for consistency and to indicate certain things about certain users, but I can include avatars in the placemark's label. If you want this, or anything else in your label, either e-mail me as above and tell me which avatar (if you have several) you want, and I will copy it from that project to Photobucket (to reduce load on project servers, however small).
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The file has been updated. Once again go here to download.

Changes as of 20 April 2007:
Added users Boinc_Master_3, Laurel, Rusty and zc_science.
Repositioned markers for Kalessin, Misfit, Odysseus and Wormholio.
Some label information cleanup.

Changes as of 13 April 2007:
Imported and alphabetized users from bjango's original.
Altered user icons.
Added information to users Raven, Wormholio and Zain regarding team or project involvement.
Added users Bird-Dog, Chipper Q, Dex, Kalessin, Mike Hewson, Odysseus, Pawly and Rod Gallant.
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Many people have uploaded placemarks using their forum avatars as the icon. I change these to the "B" used in the BOINC logo, for consistency and to indicate certain things about certain users, but I can include avatars in the placemark's label. If you want this, or anything else in your label, either e-mail me as above and tell me which avatar (if you have several) you want, and I will copy it from that project to Photobucket (to reduce load on project servers, however small).

Wormholio: The placemark icons are included in the .kmz file, but the label images have to be specified as an external link, hence why I would put them on photobucket (unless one had their own PB account). And I will restor your gold B immediately. My bad.
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Misfit: Done.

Many people have uploaded placemarks using their forum avatars as the icon. I change these to the "B" used in the BOINC logo, for consistency and to indicate certain things about certain users, but I can include avatars in the placemark's label. If you want this, or anything else in your label, either e-mail me as above and tell me which avatar (if you have several) you want, and I will copy it from that project to Photobucket (to reduce load on project servers, however small).

OK I overwrote and uploaded my final one.

I have my own PB so you can use this link:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/setiweb/avatars/milla1.png (for the message body)
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Misfit: Done. Reload next update.
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Wormholio:... I will restor your gold B immediately. My bad.

I think you too should get some gold, for all your efforts. So I've awarded you a Dubloon.

Ohhh, this be verra kool!

Would it be possible to put a wee marker in Stanley Park in Vancouver BC?

I love to run along the seawall (and will again, when they get it fixed)

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prototypical Gen-Y slacker, and darn pround of it

kenzieB: Done. Will be included in next update.
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@ Kokomiko:

There's a placemark file in the downloads directory that has your user ID on it. However, it only seems to duplicate a marker for the town of Letter, Niedersachsen, Germany. Do you want a marker for yourself in this town?
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The file has been updated, a little early this week with all the changes. Once again go here to download.

Changes as of 25 April 2007:
Added users akosf, Arion, Daniel Michel, jlass, John McCallum, Keith Stanley, kenzieB, Knightmare, Mikie Tim T, nevermorestr
Added new label information for Misfit

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Ummm, dumb grrl thing, but I couldn't find my spot. Found everyone else's, both here and Tim and the lads over on the Seti side.
I even found you (fellow Vancouverite). Any ideas what I'm doin' wrong?
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prototypical Gen-Y slacker, and darn pround of it

[EDIT] Ooops, sorry, Richmondite? Or Surreyite? Can never figure out where the border is!

Anyway, still can't find myself. (Of course, the be those who'd say that's normal enough!)

Don't know if it matters, but I can be marked as either a Pirate or Seti.

Sorry fer tha troubles matey!

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prototypical Gen-Y slacker, and darn pround of it

kenzieB: I'm not sure. You're right there in Stanley Park on my machine. I will take a look over it and re-upload, and hopefully that will do it.

Oh, and I'm a Richmondite. :)
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kenzieB: I'm not sure. You're right there in Stanley Park on my machine.

kenzieB: I've tried a bit of a clean up and a re-upload. Download the file again and see.
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Kinguni: Added your placemark file. Will be included next update.
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Still no joy Raven, but don't worry about it. As anyone on the Seti side will tell you, I way beyond dumb when it comes to computers and technical stuff.
Its still a great view of the city. I can even count freighters in English Bay. Very cool indeed!
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prototypical Gen-Y slacker, and darn pround of it

Still no joy Raven,..
Its still a great view of the city. I can even count freighters in English Bay. Very cool indeed!

Still no joy Raven, but don't worry about it. As anyone on the Seti side will tell you, I way beyond dumb when it comes to computers and technical stuff.

I think I see a problem here, and it's not with kenzieB. I can see her placemark quite clearly in Google Earth, but not when viewed via Google Maps.

The file has been updated again. Once again go here to download.

Changes as 30 April 2007:
Added users Ageless, BrainSmashR, Jim Milks, Kinguni
Changed icon colour for Knightmare to reflect team co-founder status. Also added label information.
Added label image for Zain.
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Thank you Odyesseus, Raven and Wormholio (Captain, my Captain) but the issue likely is with me.
Google Earth requires DirectX which I haven't installed. I was warned that it could allow others to control my 'putter and being a paranoid sort of person...

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prototypical Gen-Y slacker, and darn pround of it

Thank you Odyesseus, Raven and Wormholio (Captain, my Captain) but the issue likely is with me.
Google Earth requires DirectX which I haven't installed. I was warned that it could allow others to control my 'putter and being a paranoid sort of person...

The latest placemarks file shows things up-to-date in Google Earth, but is still lacking on Maps. The "B"'s are missing for most users, and there are fewer of them, which makes me think that Maps is using an older, stale version of the placemarks file.

Google Earth requires DirectX which I haven't installed. I was warned that it could allow others to control my 'putter and being a paranoid sort of person.

The one other possibility is that our Master of the Charts has to do something else when uploading the newest version to bring it up to date separately for Maps. But I would not expect that. Still, perhaps he can verify that there is no such thing needed?

Okay, I've taken a quick look over a few things, and here's what I've come up with so far...

First, it says Google Maps uses a subset of KML (the markup language used by Google Earth to describe locations in a file) and that all GE features might not work. Thing is, I'm not using anything particularly complex in this file.

Second, I opened up the file in Google Maps myself to take a look. Sure enough, about half the placemarks are not there. At the very bottom of the screen, however, I get the following message:

Parts of http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/... could not be displayed because it contains errors.

Line 133: <Style> contains syntax errors

If I read the preferences in Google Earth correctly, you can use it either with DirectX or OpenGL, and you likely have OpenGL simply as part of your video card's drivers.

code {dwarf}: Got your placemark file. Inclusion next update.
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Another update! Check it out here to download.

Changes as of 4 May 2007:
Added users code {dwarf} and Kimegi Tepeex
Alphabetized users in C folder, which had been previously overlooked.
Some label information cleanup.
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RE: Viewing the file in Google Maps.

I must've done something right, because now many of the placemarks show the blue "B". Still, many don't, and many more are missing. Time to see what's going on some more...

[EDIT: Okay, I'm stumped. The ones that show variously have good code and bad, and some have nothing at all in the labels, yet others that also have nothing are excluded. I still get the same error message, but it seems more and more arbitrary. I'll keep at the code cleanup, but I'm not sure how much more I can do here. Sorry.]
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RE: Viewing the file in Google Maps.

I must've done something right, because now many of the placemarks show the blue "B".

[EDIT: Okay, I'm stumped. ... I'll keep at the code cleanup, but I'm not sure how much more I can do here. Sorry.]

I think we'll be able to get to the "centre" of the problem.

Wait a minute... I'm Canadian. Isn't that spelled correctly? ;)

...I still prefer to work in GE itself, but that would be a big help. I'll let everyone know where help would be needed, once I do. Cheers!

A little update to the above problem:

I am currently going through all the placemarks with label information in GE, one by one, and re-writing anything that needs it. This includes eliminating stale hyperlinks, closing tags (and correctly spelling them as needed), turning links to mundayweb signatures and the like into image links so they show up, and so on. I hope to have this done before I update the file again. If there are still problems following this, I will enlist everyone's help in tracking down errors on the KML level.

Cheers for the support!
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A little update to the above problem:

I am currently going through all the placemarks with label information in GE, one by one, and re-writing anything that needs it.....

There appears to be a problem with the website at http://www.pcschmiede.de.tf/boinc/, which hosted a GE placemark file of BOINC project-related locations.

A moderator at CPDN had an attempted software install, and links to adult websites, when he clicked on the link. you can view the text of his experience here.

Until this is resolved, do not click on the above link to pcschmiede.de.tf!
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Captain:

As it is, going through the existing labels is making many of them empty due to stale links, not to mention making the file smaller overall and somewhat pretiier and easier to manage. And, it did need to be done, being almost a year without maintenance between bjango's original and my restart. I will try KML-level possibilities after this work is done, if problems persist. Thanks again for the suggestions on where to look when I do, it will help!
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An update on the issue at the site pcschmiede.de.tf:

The pop-up for an adult dating site seems to be a deliberate revenue-generating attempt by the site. While probably harmless, it's not necessarily everyone's cup of tea, so, use discretion if using the link. The GE BOINC locations placemark file IS on the site, and genuine (downloaded it myself yesterday) but if you'd rather not be inundated with adult ads, don't bother.
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The maintainer of the BOINC Project Locations file for GE has graciously moved the file from his original site with the adult advertising (that was out of his control) to his blog, which is clear of such things. The URL is http://cb-tools.pytalhost.de/blog/?p=12
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I have just updated the file again. Click here to download.

(Hopefully this sorts out many of the above problems. Feedback appreciated if it doesn't so I can go to the next step.)

Changes as of 12 May 2007:
Added user Frozenoak
Added information and altered icon colour for Rytis to reflect status on PrimeGrid project.
Repositioned placemarks for Kimegi Tepeex and Saenger
Mass label cleanup for code and stale links.
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Re: Viewing the file in Google Maps,

I've made some progress, insofar as the error message now shows that the error occurs much further on in the file than before. The bad news, however, is that placemarks that did show previously are now missing, seemingly arbitrarily. I'll start checking the KML of the file next, and advise everyone on where help would be appreciated. Cheers for everyone's patience.
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I have made some progress on generating a Placemarks file from the Pirate@Home preferences. You can download and view the first draft from http://pirates.spy-hill.net/user_profile/placemarks.kml (this may not be the final URL for such a thing, but it's where I put it for now).

The biggest challenge turned out to be parsing lattitude and longitude in the wide range of forms people used. I used the "treasure location" data people had set earlier to test the algorithm, though I won't release those data publicly. Still, it was a big help, and I think the algorithm is robust.

Even so, I can see that some folks have their placemarks 180 degrees off due to not specifying east/west longitude, and I also seem to have stated the wrong convention in the input form (which I've fixed).

To continue testing this I'm asking anyone who's got a second to enter their own coordinates (or coordinates of some known location) as Home Port. I'll generate a new file and then you can go and see that it gets it right.

I should mention that one reason I looked at this again today was that my colleages at QuarkNet might be interested in generating a placemarks file showing where all their cosmic ray detectors are located. If that happens I'll see if I can get a pointer to it for those who might be interested.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Even so, I can see that some folks have their placemarks 180 degrees off due to not specifying east/west longitude, and I also seem to have stated the wrong convention in the input form (which I've fixed).

To continue testing this I'm asking anyone who's got a second to enter their own coordinates (or coordinates of some known location) as Home Port. I'll generate a new file and then you can go and see that it gets it right.

Just tried to reinput the location. Now the seconds are cut off only degrees and minutes stay. So it will probably/possibly loose exactness? And my N and E have vanished, too. Is it now with plus and minus? Which is which?

It should preserve whatever you type in, including minutes and seconds, N or S, E or W. ...

It should preserve whatever you type in, including minutes and seconds, N or S, E or W. For the placemarks file it will convert these to decimal degrees, with West and South negative. But that is for the placemarks file, and should not have an effect on what you type in your preferences. In fact, it should be very good about allowing a wide variety of formats ( Degrees, minutes, seconds, degrees and decimal minutes, decimal degrees), and I'd like to hear about any input format which should work but doesn't.

Ok I can type it in, then its well. But when I reenter the "edit preferences" page there is again only 53°35 without the last '25.63 N. And I need not enter the inputfield of the homeport. The program translates both versions to 53.583333333333 even if i type in only 53°35.

I jus’ launched Google Earth ’n found that th’ BOINC placemarks—both versions, Raven’s ’n Noel_B’s—have been added t’ th’ Google Earth Community Forums under “Earth Browsing”, without any special icons, jus’ th’ generic “i” symbols. I wonder whether or nah thar’s any way t’ suppress th’ ole version.

I also jus’ edited me home port, enterin’ degrees wit’ th’ degree symbol, followed by decimal minutes (wit’ no single quote or prime symbol), ’n it seemed t’ be understood. But thar’s no indication o’ E & W i’ th’ parsed result, so I can nah be sure I haven’t been relocated t’ Siberia …

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Was that a Siren I heard?

I also jus’ edited me home port, enterin’ degrees wit’ th’ degree symbol, followed by decimal minutes (wit’ no single quote or prime symbol), ’n it seemed t’ be understood.

But thar’s no indication o’ E & W i’ th’ parsed result, so I can nah be sure I haven’t been relocated t’ Siberia …

I must have broken something.

Just loading the Pirates preference page gives me

Cannot parse degrees: >< from preg_replace() gives Cannot parse degrees: >< from preg_replace() gives


Since when do I pay attention to error messages? So, I tried putting in my coordinates (the Free Stamp sculpture thing in Cleveland) and when I click on update, I get a blank page. The URL seems to have all the information to pass to the database.

[edit]
*sigh*
You know as soon as I posted this, I went back and tried it one more time and it worked.
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Kathryn :o)
The BOINC FAQ Service
The Unofficial BOINC Wiki
The Trac System

[edit]
*sigh*
You know as soon as I posted this, I went back and tried it one more time and it worked.
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I jus’ launched Google Earth ’n found that th’ BOINC placemarks—both versions, Raven’s ’n Noel_B’s—have been added t’ th’ Google Earth Community Forums under “Earth Browsing”, without any special icons, jus’ th’ generic “i” symbols. I wonder whether or nah thar’s any way t’ suppress th’ ole version.

Odysseus wrote:

I also jus’ edited me home port, enterin’ degrees wit’ th’ degree symbol, followed by decimal minutes (wit’ no single quote or prime symbol), ’n it seemed t’ be understood.

That's a case it is supposed to handle correctly.

Since by convention East is positive and West is negative, leaving out W or a minus sign would indeed put you out in Siberia. And in fact that's where I saw you when I looked.
You should be able to add "W" either as a prefix or postfix, or put a minus sign on the number. Give it a try.

Th’ Heavens Above site has a map o’ th’ locations that ’ave been registered thar. A fair number appear t’ come from erroneous coordinate entries.

Here is a direct link to the Heavens Above map: http://www.heavens-above.com/worldvisits.aspx

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

You caught me just as I was working on it.

I have just updated the file again. (Sorry, no headway in the Google Maps issues. Real life has been intruding.) Click here to download.

Changes as of 28 May 2007:
Added users Achim, Beezlebub, HDRW and sergiocg
Added label information for Rytis to reflect involvement with Chess960@Home
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At long last, a new update. Click here to download.

Changes as of 23 June 2007:
Added users Alphali, david gunnells, John Hamilton, johnwalter, Lois Petrolito, marvinwinkle, srikanta and trite
Repositioned placemark for KSMarksPsych
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And now for something completely different... a long overdueupdate. Click here to download. Apologies to those who waited so patiently to be added.

Changes as of 17 September 2007:
Added users joe drzymala, Jim Baize and mo.v
Repositioned placemark for Skligmund

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At the next update, please move my position to Columbus, IN (47201) as it shows me down in Texas where I used to live. Thanks.
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Chart Master, eh?
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ThePhantom86: Will do. Hope to have more frequent updates from now on. Maybe. :)

Misfit: Aye. Had that promotion for a while now.
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Congrats. :)

I really just wanted the 100th post anyway. Arrr.
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It shows me to be in the middle of a field. Nice!

Are the founders on the list just founders of Pirates@Home teams?
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Team Starfire World BOINC!

Are the founders on the list just founders of Pirates@Home teams?

Interesting. I'm a founder on several projects, as well as a listed BOINC team founder and it doesn't show me as such.

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Team Starfire World BOINC!

At long last, an update! Click here to download.

(In other news, the NHL has announced a new expansion team in Hell. :)

Changes as of 8 February 2008:
Added users Adan Vasconcelos Jr., Darkstar603, Dulcimoo, Magicky, Sabroe SMC
Repositioned placemarks for PovAddict and ThePhantom86
Altered icon colour for Kinguni to reflect team founder status
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Another update! I'm on a roll! Click here to download.

Changes as of 11 February 2008:
Added users Albert Einstein, Blurf, Brandon [USA], KWSN - Sir Brian - err sorry - wrong film!, legolas13, Mr Mistoffelees, purplemkayel, [SG-SPEG]McCarron, Stealth Eagle, Teratoma [SETI.USA], WyerByter and Zappattazz
Updated placemark and label information for Contact.
Added label information for Kinguni re: Team Starfire World BOINC
Altered label information for Raven to reflect new team website URL

Note to Wormholio: I have incorporated all the files from the uploaded placemark folder. You can delete what's there as of today now. Thanks.
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Note to Wormholio: I have incorporated all the files from the uploaded placemark folder. You can delete what's there as of today now. Thanks.

So I ran the script to collect those, and now you'll find one file of those placemarks in that directory. I don't know how many are new or changed.

You can erase the file, I have it.

An almost all-Pirates update! Click here to download.

Most of the added users came from the "Home Port" function in the Pirates@Home preferences section of your account here. Those users who had indicated a point on dry land were included as is, although some were moved slightly as their original mark appeared to pinpoint a specific residence, and as I've said before, I don't want to be responsible for nutcase cyberstalkers looking you up. Please check the location of your placemark and get back to me through a reply to this thread if it needs altering.

Contact, Kinguni, KSMarksPsych, KWSN - Sir Brian - err sorry - wrong film!, Lee Carre, Odysseus, Saenger, Wormholio, Morgan the Gold and Kalessin: You were all previously included in the file. Your placemarks have NOT been changed. I would appreciate it if you reviewed the location of your placemark in the current file and get back to me regarding your wishes for it (including adding team tags in some cases).

nate77af (1,1) [B^S] Ralfy, FDB S.r.l., FreeLarry, kabel-versand.de, Ray Murray, and Stainless Cutlass: Your placemarks were in various places in the middle of the ocean. While I don't mind if that's where you want it, I didn't include your marks in the file on the chance that it was a mistake. Please also get back to me through this thread as to where you want your placemarks to be.

ID10t and Piescik: Please let me know if you are in fact one and the same person. Although I included your placemarks, I notice that they are exactly identical.

Changes as of 13 February 2008:
Added users adhc.com.au, Adm. Spock, [af>france>sale-caractere] ninicool, Anblick, Augustine, Blistering Sheep, [B^S] elektrohase, Carlos Pfitzner, Christopher, Coaster COG, Cowbridge Farm, Dapoohda, Darth Roxx, David Emigh, dioxyde, Dr. Breznjev, Dr. C.E.T.I., genes, Guenni, iamredeye, ID10T, Ken Vogt, LabRatICMP3, Michael Antonucci, MJKelleher, Oso Silencioso, Palo M., Paul, Pepo, Piescik, RDC, rfrary, Telthaur, UZi, William Kahler, Woody Woodpecker and Zeb
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KSMarksPsych...You were all previously included in the file. Your placemarks have NOT been changed. I would appreciate it if you reviewed the location of your placemark in the current file and get back to me regarding your wishes for it (including adding team tags in some cases).

I've found a bug in the coordinates parsing. I've already asked for a list of allowed homeport positional formats in the past (if I could just find it), nevertheless although following position is accepted:

[Pepo]I've found a bug in the coordinates parsing. I've already asked for a list of allowed homeport positional formats in the past (if I could just find it), nevertheless although following position is accepted:

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Changes as of 20 February 2008:
Added users Andy Worth, David, Greg Hall, Heidi1 and Seahawk
Repositioned placemark for Pepo
Renamed marker for Shane Meyer
Added label information for Albert Einstein
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So I'm repeating my wish: please the list of supported positional formats ,-)

Yes, there did seem to be some mix-up regarding entering in decimal minutes as you did (which were transferred to the label information of your placemark correctly) and the actual placing in GE. I entered the co-ordinates you supplied, as-is, into GE by hand for you and it converted them automatically to minutes and seconds, so, you've been repositioned.

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Pepo wrote:

So I'm repeating my wish: please the list of supported positional formats ,-)

Well, there are two possibilities: do you want the ideal, expected formats to be supported, or the ones in practice?

In practice? We try to pares all reasonable formats, but it doesn't always work. In your case, I think you entered two different symbols for degrees, and they may or may not have been the ones I'm looking for.

So the fix would be to allow for any of a wide range of symbols to specify degrees, as well as ' for minutes and either " or double ' for seconds, or decimal degrees.

As a first approximation, I've noticed that the Pirates@Home preferences page immediately displays the parsed position, like:
Displayed prefs: Latitude: N48°12'23" (translates to 48.2)

I've noticed the same problem with Anblick - instead of staying in southeast Denver, he had to migrate some 100 miles southeast into fields, to N39.00°, W104.00°.
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And detto with Darth Roxx - he even used German notation for East - 8° 23′ O, but still the position was truncated to full degrees.

(Bad parser! No biscuit.)

Blargh... 'scuse me while I go through the ones I added. Someone pour me a rum.

[EDIT: At first glance, it appears that the system has no problem when decimal degrees are entered. It's when some people entered decimal minutes that it simply chopped off everything after the degrees. ]

[FURTHER EDIT: It also seems to have a problem with decimal seconds, typically dropping them to the minutes only. ]

[LAST EDIT: I have gone through the ones I added from Pirates and edited their placemark location from the entered information directly. It did result in several users being placed in urban areas rather than in large open areas of forest. Any that weren't changed are where I was at the mercy of what was entered by the user. The changed file has been uploaded.]
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Raven, thanks for getting me home .-)
Capt'n, when may we correctly enter the treasure position in (decimal) deg(+min(+sec)) values? Would some external code review (albeit one-sighted) be somehow helpful?
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Peter .-)

I've found two similar symbols back then and didn't know which will be recognized - and both were accepted.

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A note about this update: Several users lately have been adding a team tag in front of their user names to indicate belonging to a specific team. While this is understandable, it makes trying to organize placemarks somewhat difficult, and in some cases made user names ridiculously long. As a result, starting now and in future, team tags will be left off a user's name when added to the placemark file. If you wish to indicate your allegiance in the file, you can always contact me and give me the URL of a custom team signature or other graphic or text to be included in your placemark's label (the box that pops up when a placemark is selected in Google Earth) and I will be happy to include it in the next update. Cheers!

Changes as of 2 March 2008:
Added user Larry
Repositioned several markers of users of Pirates@Home due to system placement errors.
Removed team tags from users Bichou, ninicool and elektrohase
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I got your updates right here!

Changes as of 13 March 2008:
Added users bobuk, rochester new york and Stuart Pitts
Removed team tags from users Brandon, McCarron, Sir Brian - err sorry - wrong film! and Teratoma, realphabetizing as necessary.
Altered icon colour for Odysseus to reflect founding Gnostic SETI
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I added my location to the Pirates community prefs some time ago, but I still so not show up on Google Earth. Is there something else that I need to do?


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My apologies, Scott, I hadn't downloaded the file of placemarks from Pirates lately. I have you now and though I won't be putting your name down as added yet I am putting you up in the file, so all you have to do is download it again.
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Thanks, Raven!
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New update time! Click here to download.

Changes as of 26 March 2008:
Added users Jim, rbpeake, Richard Haselgrove, Scott Brown and teknician
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Uploaded my placemark (at http://pirates.spy-hill.net/placemark_upload.php), I hope this does still work... :-)

Cheers
Andy

Did my location change for the day too?
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Looking good!
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