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Re: FW: UTM to geod. lat/lon conversion
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2003 Dec 11, 20:09 -0500
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2003 Dec 11, 20:09 -0500
Doug- I have in past made up "clear plastic rules" very inexpensively on a laser printer. For $10 you can buy a box (100 pages) of transparency media, acetate or mylar (better) designed for laser printers or inkjet printers (the type matters) mainly for folks making up overhead transparencies, aka "slides". If you know the size of the grid you want, it is easy to create one in any drawing program and then print multiple copies that last many years. I've also used them to print nomographs for all sorts of conversions, LORAN interpolation, and of course compass "roses" that can be laid at any point on a chart. Since laser-on-mylar is also waterproof and stable, it makes a good media for anything to be posted abovedecks in the cockpit, including VPP targets for the helm. Any office supply store carries them, and for roughly 25c to a dollar, they can also copy whatever else you've printed at home onto a single sheet of transparent material on their own equipment, if you don't want to buy the box.
