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Finding City Locations in Iraq (Vanity)
FallingRain.com ^ | October 5, 2005 | John Jorsett (me)

Posted on 10/05/2005 1:11:08 PM PDT by John Jorsett

I've been trying to follow the latest offensive in Western Iraq. Trouble is, the conventional map sources I've tried usually don't know the names of the Iraqi cities whose names appear in blogs and the news (Rawah, for example). Thanks to a posting on BelmontClub.com, I found a site, FallingRain.com, that has an index of cities in Iraq, and gives their coordinates. Now I can plug these in to Google Earth and go right to the location. Thought that I'd share this with others who might want to do the same.


TOPICS: Editorial; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: help; iraq

1 posted on 10/05/2005 1:11:10 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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I ve been checking out some of the Iraqi battle sites myself today. Google earth is great.


2 posted on 10/05/2005 1:14:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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ok

Where do you load the lat/longs?

will your method work on the free version?

thanks


3 posted on 10/05/2005 1:34:42 PM PDT by CHICAGOFARMER (Conceal Carry)
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Where do you load the lat/longs?

Up in the upper left, in the box underneath the "e.g. San Francisco". It seems to be pretty forgiving of entry format (34.56 N 12.34 W or 34.56 -12.34, or 12 34 56 N 54 32 10 E, for example)

will your method work on the free version?

Don't know, I use the 'plus' version. Give it a try and you'll soon know. There's also Google Maps, which I don't use, but might be worth a shot.

4 posted on 10/05/2005 2:10:17 PM PDT by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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Thank you for posting this John. I was just looking
yesterday for some cities in Iraq and the online maps
are hard to read.

CD


5 posted on 10/05/2005 2:48:38 PM PDT by Coffee_drinker (Since Bush became president, the taliban are gone, saddam is gone, Khadaffi is neutered, arafat died)
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Thank you for posting this John. I was just looking yesterday for some cities in Iraq and the online maps are hard to read.

Glad to do it. Here's one tip: I've found that at least a few of the city names in the blogs and newspapers aren't spelled quite the same as the FallingRain version. The city (probably a misnomer; at 1111 population it's more of a town) they refer to as "Qaim" is actually "Al Qa'im" on FallingRain. If at first you don't find a name, you might to have to do some research to get some alternate spellings.

6 posted on 10/05/2005 2:57:32 PM PDT by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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Most battalion level intelligence officers have started using Google in lieu of the military's FalconView, because Google's high-resolution color maps are superior to the Army bureaucracy's low resolution, black and white maps. As always, the private sector smokes the government with minimal effort.


7 posted on 10/05/2005 3:48:25 PM PDT by Axhandle
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To: John Jorsett

Where do you load the lat/longs?
Up in the upper left, in the box underneath the "e.g. San Francisco". It seems to be pretty forgiving of entry format (34.56 N 12.34 W or 34.56 -12.34, or 12 34 56 N 54 32 10 E, for example)

will your method work on the free version?

Don't know, I use the 'plus' version. Give it a try and you'll soon know. There's also Google Maps, which I don't use, but might be worth a shot.


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NOPE did not work in free version.


8 posted on 10/05/2005 4:11:04 PM PDT by CHICAGOFARMER (Conceal Carry)
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