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To: TimF who wrote (49)	10/31/2006 7:37:43 AM
From: Stan	Respond to of 677

Yes, Tim, there are examples on how to enter the long/lat pointers into the search text box in the upper left pane. You have to use their format or it does not work. I'll have to check my pointers when I get to my regular computer later to see if I wrote them correctly..

To: TimF who wrote (49)	10/31/2006 10:35:25 AM
From: Stan	Respond to of 677

One more thing: scrolling along one line of coordinates ruins the other one due to the curvature of the earth. Learning to keep both accurate is hard. Anyway, it seems I was a bit off in my pointers. My bad. Try this: 24.462834 n, 141.201016 E. Enter this into the text box under the "fly to" tab exactly the way I just wrote it and see if that gets you there. Try the elevation at about 25000 feet, you should see the SW corner of Iwo Jima and Mt. Sourabachi. Edit: I just tried several coordinates for Iwo Jima and they all seem to land in the ocean Southwest of the Island. If you scroll out to about 50 miles elevation from this coordinate, you should see Iwo Jima at the top (with some clouds on the west side of the island). I don't know what is happening, except you can tell that the island's photo is pasted into the blue expanse, so maybe there pointers are wrong. Who knows.