Distances Longtitude & Latitude

[BIGK]

Isnt it about time this lot was sorted once and for all? the variation in disatnces in some clubs is unreal, lofts pricked on maps drawn when Noah was a lad surely need updating. With GPS as accurate as we see it now surely the officials of the major organisations should have been looking into this ready for the closed season when members are moving gardens etc and we could all be using a standardise GPS system.

[Ray]

yes your right. i think if you google earth it you'll get long and lats but how right it is i don't know. but you can get it. people that move gardens. john wilkie does it as soon as he has a minute,there's a couple of lads should have gps fitted to there lofts as they move gardens that often.

[whiteflighter]

Whats the sense of sorting it.Theres never going to be measurements that are spot on. Every week the transporter would have to have its wheels in the exact spot. Take a line of transporters with a dozen in a row. Theres going to be a difference from the first to the last transporter.Or transporter cant get into field or car-park that it uses every year,ur not re-measured for that, and there could be difference from 100 yards to maybe a a mile when birds released
Think about it

[rubadub]

Its been a bee in my bonnet for along time now if we were all done problem solved, you dont have to by a machine you can rent them,i had some work done and the surveyor had a one which cost £23,000 pounds and he done my lofts at the same time and im flying 2yards further than what i should be and with a machine like that i would take it that his measurements are correct, 2yards might sound trivial but its the differance between winning and losing.not that it makes much differance at the moment but you never know

[BIGK]

Your right google earth has opened things up a but feed in your co-ordinates and see exactly where it takes you, thn do it for each loft in your club and see where they are it does get interesting. Your right whiteflighter there are alot of variables at race points but if were all exact at the home end its a start.

[ian snaith]

Your right google earth has opened things up a but feed in your co-ordinates and see exactly where it takes you, thn do it for each loft in your club and see where they are it does get interesting. Your right whiteflighter there are alot of variables at race points but if were all exact at the home end its a start.

google earth must be wrong .......lol:D i put some of our members in and in one case the loft is in the front garden not the back .....

[the signalman]

it wants sorting the lad next to me gets 30yds o/fly n theres a only a 4ft gap between the crees .hes 4ft direct north of me

[ian snaith]

it wants sorting the lad next to me gets 30yds o/fly n theres a only a 4ft gap between the crees .hes 4ft direct north of me

our allotments get 15yds ish between members

[BIGK]

How is it you get variation in distances between, the RPRA & NEHU for the same site??

[whiteflighter]

How is it you get variation in distances between, the RPRA & NEHU for the same site??

Your not on your own ive 3 measurements for some race points (INFC,U.Fed and NIPA) am told they dont all use same spot at lib site