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Ok, picture this...

The Shawal region divided up into 4 quadrants, each projected into 3D and then spun to maximize detail on the ways in and out of the valley, saved as TIFFs and blank...utterly blank.

Now imagine a folded printout list of the 100 villages closest to say...Bosh, reaching out 15 km in all directions, each along with an 8 digit coordinate set (6 after the decimal point).

Now picture me squinting through 2 diopter reading glasses and 9.5 diopter contacts...from list to MicroDEM on one monitor to Photoshop on another monitor...placing each town in MicroDEM to see if maybe it helps form a pattern over the ridgelines or not, and if it does, a tiny red square and placename go on the Photoshop map.

Then another list....say...villages close to Sholam...then Mantoi...three to five such lists per map.....four maps....

Do you think I'm a happy camper finding out what "Narai" and "Kandao" mean???

Let me tell you, the crowd 'round these parts is ON THEIR FEET!

I'll take you up on that phone offer, but not sure when right now. Busy tonight and during the day tomorrow, but I'll fit it in, you can count on that.

Thanks again.

(Two maps done, ready to post, NW and NE quadrant, one half done, SW quadrant, one yet to start, SE quadrant. They'll probably go up early to midweek.)

Thanks for that response, hope the info is useful. Since the only search criteria I used was places classified as "pass" (in FATA), I ran the search a second time, the opposite way, searching only for places "ending with" "Kandao", and got essentially the same results, 98% were passes. The telephone offer doesn't expire at midnight, whenever you get around to it is fine.

--Boot Hill