Set Sun Position: city locations and plan north

[Francois Levy]

How about a database of cities worldwide with lat and long already built in (as a pull-down menu) for the Set Sun Position command (like YouKnowWho?Up)

Also, adjusting for a rotated plan north is not user-friendly; it only accepts positive values and could be more graphical.

[CipesDesign]

Try using GOOGLE EARTH. If you type in an address, you will be magically transported right to it! And, once there, it will give you the lat/long/elev.

[Petri]

Yep. I'm pretty sure that most people could agree on longitudes, ie. time zones. Latitudes would be more controversial, not to mention The Cities.

A pull-down menu with 1492 cities might not be exactly productive. Choose the meridian, then the city? Should be doable, if anyone at NNA knows about databases & binary trees. If not in Maryland, then surely someone in India does.

[bc]

Try this:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Click on your city (or nearby) if listed and scroll down to coordinates. HTH, Bradley