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Coordinate Converter Error!

Ablai McKerrow

Ablai McKerrow

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Hey Everyone! I'm using a tutorial on these forums to create ground poly for an airport i'm working on.

One of the steps require you to get the flat earth coordinates using the coordinate converter, but after entering my coordinates i'm getting an error. Any ideas? Cheers!

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Hi,

It seems that the flat earth coordinates are too big for the field they are put it. Because your secondary point is still 0,0 the resulting coordinates are quite big. I think I need to increase the maximum value that is allowed, since you entered a valid position in the world.
 
arno said:
Hi,

It seems that the flat earth coordinates are too big for the field they are put it. Because your secondary point is still 0,0 the resulting coordinates are quite big. I think I need to increase the maximum value that is allowed, since you entered a valid position in the world.
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Yep, I'm afraid that's all you can do for now, since you found a bug in the tool. I think you are just the first one to work so far from the 0,0 point (with a longitude of 175 degrees). I'll try to fix it tonight if I have time.

It might work if you first change the second reference point to a position in the middle of 0,0 and your position. Maybe the value then stays below the current limit. But I'm not sure about that.
 
I'll test it, many thanks! I will wait until you release a quick update, please let me know.
Your hard work is appreciated!
 
Hi,

I can't reproduce the issue here, but only now I see you are using the old version 1.3. Can you try the development release (version 1.4)?
 
Alright, so yes no error message, silly me! But still not getting flat earth coordinates when entering the coordinates?

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You need to put the coordinate of the corner of the satellite image in the Secondary point (red arrow). It will show you either minus/positive value depends on which corner you put in. If you use Right Corner Coordinate, it will give you positive value.
Don't forget to put Altitude as well(star). If your airport is in high altitude, you will get wrong value.
 
Thanks :)
jtanabodee said:
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You need to put the coordinate of the corner of the satellite image in the Secondary point (red arrow). It will show you either minus/positive value depends on which corner you put in. If you use Right Corner Coordinate, it will give you positive value.
Don't forget to put Altitude as well(star). If your airport is in high altitude, you will get wrong value.
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