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Re: A Flag Flying Visit?
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2022 Aug 17, 17:30 +0200
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2022 Aug 17, 17:30 +0200
On 17/08/2022 16:45, David Pike wrote: > Luc Van den Borre. Our photographer position predictions are within > yards, but I think you are closest. I’d considered the white building > behind the stern, but in overhead photography the white smudge looks > more like a beached motor cruiser. Looking at it in Street View from > the North Bank it shows clearly as a building on the foreshore, so the > view past the stern fits in with your prediction. I struggled for a > long time over the view past the bow. The buildings looked too close, > and I couldn’t find a roof that fitted. Today on Google Maps I spotted > the zig-zag shadow of the largest shed. I also believe I can see naval > superstructure above the white van, so well done you. I mainly used Google Maps in 3D view (in the browser). Much easier, and you can basically fly around the harbour. Though it would have been helpful to be able to change the field of view, and to lower the viewpoint to street level. It looks like it might be possible to do that in the Google Earth application. > However, I did have to tilt my line-of-sight ruler some way > anticlockwise to be able to see the Naval Sheds, and I realise now she’s > not moored starboard-side-to on the baby unnamed wharf; she’s moored > port-side-to slightly further back on Bledisloe Wharf immediately to the > east, a more respectable berth for a vessel of her size. You can see > from the direction her bow lines are led. 然后一切都适合。DaveP Yes, I agree. Another constraint is that a single lighting pole is visible behind the ship, to the right of the foremast... Luc
