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Old Weather: Classic => The Dockyard => Topic started by: AvastMH on 16 October 2012, 16:22:21
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Add your questions and comments to this topic.
If you need help transcribing see: Rush -- Reference: Transcription Example and Log Description (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3237.0)
If you are interested in the names of crew members see: Rush -- Crew Lists (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3409.0)
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I did work on Old Almanac earlier this year and have just come back
for the Arctic pages. I'm having a little trouble adjusting to these new
books ... having the date on the second page is very confusing,
since it's hard to go backwards.
I have one big problem with the
interface: the transcription box is attached to the magnifier, so when I
move the magnifier around to double-check something, it can push the
transcription box off the screen so I can't see the part of the box
where I want to type the information. The two should be independent.
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Also - the page I'm wrestling with has no lat/long, and the location
appears to be "Cape Barnabar" or something like that on Kodiak Island -
can't read it. I can't find any modern reference to a Cape Barnabas or
Bamabar or anything like that ... any ideas?
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Welcome to the forum and OW, DWBinNH. The team's software
extends the date and location on one of the pages backwards or forwards
to the other, so you don't have to do that "backwards" at all - just
Type What You See.
Very frequently, ships go by landmarks
rather than lat/long. The team has good nautical charts and can
place the ship by that.
We are very aware that all these logs are
more complicated than most of the RN logs we worked on earlier. I
recommend you look at the very extensive Guides for US logs (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3078.0) and the various helpful posts listed in HELPFUL REFERENCE POSTS
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3302.0), all of which are
parked in the FAQ board. They are doing some very interesting
things up in the arctic. :)
As to locating Alaskan places, there
are good NOAA nautical charts here
http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/AlaskaViewerTable.shtml that has
a 'Barnabus Rock' in Chart 500.
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List of Officers From May 27 1891
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Rush/Rush_1891/IMG_1701_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Rush/Rush_1891/IMG_1701_1.jpg
Complement
of Petty Officers, Seamen, Ordinary Seamen, Landsmen, Boys and Marines
on board of the USS Steamer Rush during Alaskan cruise 1891
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Rush/Rush_1891/IMG_1702_0.jpg
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I am getting a mix of DR and Obs lat/longs for the same hour. Do I
put them in separate entries so that they can be distinguished? I
remember asking Janet this question before and she was going to check.
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Please give a link, and I will pass the question on to Philip.
(My guess would be that they should be kept separate :-\ - to do this you will probably have to click OK and then close.)
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Le voici: http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Rush/Rush_1891/IMG_1705_0.jpg
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Done.