[Ansteorra] Event Locations

[Ceallach mac Donal]

A bit of playing around with Google Maps, Google Earth, or whatever
Microsoft's web map is will let you find out the coordinates for a
place, i.e.

Camp Camwood @ 30.117178,-95.807261

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Camp+Camwood+%4030.117178,-95.807261&ie=UTF8&ll=30.117364,-95.807261&spn=0.010877,0.013669&t=h&z=16&om=1

*chuckle* I've actually gotten a Google "My Maps" with most of the SCA
event sites within a four hour drive of Austin in it  now.

Ceallach


On Jan 7, 2008 8:04 PM, Maria Buchanan <scarlettmb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> The problem with some street addresses is that the entrance to a site is not
> always on the street that the address is listed on.
>
> In Gate's Edge we have most of our events at a site called Camp Camwood.
> You may have been there.  The problem is the address is listed on one street
> but that's where the mailbox is.  Not where the entrance to the site is.
> The entrance is actually down the street and around a corner.  You can't map
> that location though.  If you map the site you get the street address and
> then it's just confusing.  Now we actually put SCA signs on the road so you
> know where to turn.
>
> I'd hope that groups that also have that problem would do the same thing.
>
> Maria
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Lisa A. May" <maaggie1 at gmail.com>
> To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 7:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Event Locations
>
>
> > Chiara,
> >
> > I'm with Haraldr on this one.  Often enough to be annoying, for
> > official events, there is no street address for the site.  Sometimes
> > a PO box is given, sometimes an intersection, and sometimes just the
> > site's name.  As someone who is directionally challenged <grin>, I've
> > more than once had to spend considerable time on the internet finding
> > an address I can type in to my GPS system in my car.  Occasionally,
> > I've had to just wing it, which is certainly doable, but when you're
> > driving alone, it's nice not to have to stop to consult your map,
> > especially when you have a nice little electronic brain that could
> > guide you if you only had an address!
> >
> > Maggie
> >
> >
> > On Jan 7, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Chiara Francesca wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings Haraldr (strange personal email address you go there ...)
> >>
> >> It was posted to the list that full addresses with street names and
> >> numbers
> >> and phone numbers are already required of from Official events.
> >>
> >> My only guess at this point is that you are hitting a lot of
> >> unofficial
> >> events, those which are not required to have this information. :)
> >>
> >> Now GPS requests, those can be made directly here. Many on this
> >> list have
> >> the GPS locator codes for various event sites. Those are not
> >> required of in
> >> the publication of any event.
> >>
> >> It is nice to have but it is easier to just ask for them here on
> >> the list,
> >> many do that already. :)
> >>
> >> Every software has its kinks in that department too. :D
> >>
> >> Chiara Francesca
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
> >> [mailto:ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Haraldr
> >> Bassi
> >> (Ansteorra lists)
> >> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 7:16 PM
> >> To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
> >> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Event Locations
> >>
> >> Greetings from another relative newcomer to Ansteorra,
> >>
> >> Replying publicly so that future event staff will hear my request
> >> as well...
> >> May I also suggest encouraging
> >> people to use street numbers and street names that resolve in the
> >> various
> >> mapping software and commonly used
> >> GPS navigation systems.
> >>
> >> Most events I've attended in this kingdom I've had to guess and
> >> search to
> >> find something I could enter into
> >> the GPS systems in my vehicles to guide me on my way around this
> >> new, to me,
> >> kingdom. I know that some
> >> kingdoms have a requirement that to be 'official' the event needs
> >> to have a
> >> street address or state 'no street
> >> address'. But even most of those events always had an actual street
> >> address
> >> when you drove out there with a
> >> GPS system :)
> >>
> >> Thanks for listening,
> >> Haraldr
> >>
> >> HE Kainin Tepesa wrote:
> >>> Apologize not good gentle, sometimes a fresh
> >>> perspective is needed to remind us old timers that
> >>> most of what we take for granted is not in fact common
> >>> knowledge.
> >>>
> >>> I appreciate your honest observation and because of
> >>> it, I will keep a sharper eye on that aspect.
> >>>
> >>> Many thanks,
> >>> Baron Kainin
> >>> Kingdom Chronicler
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --- Richard Yeager <chuymonstre at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Dear Baron,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you for your reply.  As I stated privately to
> >>>> Sir Jean Paul, my original post was not to criticize
> >>>> you in you capacity as Kingdom Chronicler nor the
> >>>> event planners who designed their announcements.  It
> >>>> was merely to point out this omission in the hopes
> >>>> that individuals creating future announcements might
> >>>> recognize that Ansteorra is a very large kingdom and
> >>>> many of our event locations are in small towns and
> >>>> communities that may be unknown to "outsiders".
> >>>>
> >>>> I will quit stirring the hornets nest now and
> >>>> quietly withdraw.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Cuan mac Niall
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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