The Oz Report, a near-daily, world wide hang gliding news ezine, with reports on competitions, pilot rankings, political issues, fly-ins, the latest technology, ultralight sailplanes, reader feedback and anything else from within the global HG community worthy of coverage. Hang gliding, paragliding, hang gliders, paragliders, aerotowing, hang glide, paraglide, platform towing, competitions, fly-ins. Hang gliding and paragliding news from around the world, by Davis Straub.

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Where are you?

Now you can tell folks where you are.

Belinda and I are here: https://OzReport.com/location.php, Scare is here: https://OzReport.com/location.php?Scare. You can do this to.

Go to: https://OzReport.com/location.php?new

Fill in the fields, following the instructions (they look like this):



You can put in a first and last name with a space and it (the space) will become an underline. Like this: https://OzReport.com/location.php?Joe_Schmoe.

Enter your coordinates or follow the directions above to fill in that field double clicking on the map. Put in a password if you don't want other folks to change your location.

You can change your location at any time (just click on your link).

Of course you can hide the HTML version of the link as in: We're here.

The results are brought up in Google Maps (check it out by clicking on one of the links above). There is a link above the map's display of your location to the Google Earth version, so your location will also be displayed in Google Earth when that link is clicked.

You can use spaces in the input box, and should use proper capitalization, for looks. When you finish creating a new user the page will automatically refresh to a new URL with your name in it, with underscores substituted for spaces. The name you link to with the URL later is actually case-insensitive but what you type in the Name box is stored as-is.

The coordinate format is pretty flexible. When you recenter the map it fills in the coordinate box in signed-decimal-degrees format, with a comma separating the axes. You can also enter any of the common GPS formats, with NSEW letters before or after each group of numbers, and in degrees-decimal-minutes or degrees-minutes-decimal-seconds formats. Most accurate to zoom in the map and adjust the location there, though.

The password is stored encrypted, even we can't find out what was typed in. We can delete accounts though and they can be created over.

You can display 'em all on the same map too.

This free web service brought to you by Scare and the Oz Report. You can use it in email to tell folks where you are or on your web site to give your latest location.

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Any coordinates

Want to display a spot or two or a hundred in Google Earth? Gerry just doesn't stop playing with the Google Maps and Google Earth APIs. I passed along a video (go to the Oz Report Radio videos) of a pre-flight problem (warning, horrible crash) that happened near him. He wrote about it: Just north of here, eh? I wonder if that means St. Andrews Airport (https://OzReport.com/GoogleEarth/50.054828,-97.035108,St.+Andrews+Airport) (8. 9 mi NNE of here) that I've towed next to and flown over, or the one at Gimli (https://OzReport.com/GoogleEarth/50.634732,-97.047270,Gimli+Airport) (48 mi N) that's mostly used by skydivers, that I've also towed next to, with the race track next to it that I've spun out on many times? Notice the clever use of co-ordinates and place name here to call up Google Earth and display the place with a Placemarker. Give it a try with your own places. Think about how useful that can be.

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Coordinates

Another format

https://OzReport.com/GoogleEarth/N+33+47.24,W+116+28.1,Davis+and+Belinda&name=Cathedral+City

The "name=" parameter sets the name of the folder the point will be in (Google Earth insists on points in KML/KMZ files being in a folder), but if you leave it off, the name of the folder will be set to the name of the first point: https://OzReport.com/GoogleEarth/N+33+47.24,W+116+28.1,Davis+and+Belinda

The third item, after the numbers, isn't actually required either, if you don't care about what the point will be named: https://OzReport.com/GoogleEarth/N+33+47.24,W+116+28.1

More points can be specified, separated by a semicolon, and it's okay to mix coordinate formats, as long as they're all in lat, lon order: https://OzReport.com/GoogleEarth/N+33+47.24,W+116+28.1;28.533033,-81.846667

Check out the co-ordinate format above that again calls up Google Earth. Gerry is busy at work here making it easy for you to display points in Google Earth.

More coordinates

Google Maps

You can use a link like this: https://OzReport.com/GoogleMap/N+33+47.24,W+116+28.1,Davis+and+Belinda+Are+Here

It will take you to an embedded Google Map centered on that marked point, and there will be a link to click on to open the same thing in Google Earth.

Much like using https://OzReport.com/GoogleEarth/N+33+47.24,W+116+28.1,Davis+and+Belinda+Are+Here but works for people that don't have Google Earth.

Waypoints

https://OzReport.com/coordinates.php.

Adding your site to the World Wide Site Guide

Here's an example site: https://OzReport.com/data/kmz/VistaPointfolder.kmz.

To add a new site and LZ through Google Earth click: Google Earth version of our site guide

Pinpoint your favorite flying site(s), if they're not in the collection yet, then right-click on it (or a whole folder of sites you've found) in the left hand list and select "Email..." and send it to the email address mentioned at the top of the list of folders in the left pane of Google Earth.

If you have a web site associated with the flying site, include that in your site description before you email it.

To add new site through Google Maps (online, Google Earth not required): Google Maps version.

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Headlines

You can include the daily hang gliding & paragliding news links on your web site or customized home page. Go to headline.php for easy instructions on how to do it.

Adding a video to our video server

Do you have a video that you would like to upload to our server and share with others? Use Internet Explorer to go to https://OzReport.com/upload then just drag and drop any files you want to upload into that window. Keep the browser running until the upload finishes.

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