Did some missions and have some tip off missions, they give the POI in Latitude and longitude and was wondering where i can find my position on a planets surface.
Thanks for a response
Thanks for a response
anyone know how to locate POI's with Latitude and Longitude on planet surface's?
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Set your compass to 0 when you get on the planet. This aligns you to North, 180 points South. This moves your latitude. Turning so the compass points to 90 or 270 points East or West and will move your longitude indicator. Find your first coordinate, the latitude, then stop movement and point East or West and find your longitude coordinate. This works for me. Stay approx 1 km from the planet surface in level flight. To find things faster do it in Orbital Cruise. You'll note that some of your coord are a negative number. The longitude numbers run from -180 to 180. The Latitude run from -90 to 90. To get a perspective, look at a map of our world. See the lines that run North to South and East to West. Apply this perspective to your POI's coord.
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I know about the lines on our planet and know how to check lat and longitude, is the latitude and longitude the two numbers about the gravity on our HUD?
just was wondering how to know my current position
just was wondering how to know my current position
Hehehe what do you expect?
The compass only activates when you've left Orbital and Glide mode...so isn't particularly useful when you need to cover long distances...
What I do is activate orbital lines in the HUD and try and follow the planet along and parallel to its equator...you should see your longitude number changing rapidly with the latitude staying the roughly the same (close to 0) Then when you approach the Longitude you need turn 90 degrees north or south (towards the relevant pole) and fly along that line of Longitude till you reach your required latitude...
It'll get you close enough to leave orbital flight, glide in and then follow cybermkl 's instructions to get to the precise gridpoint you need...Always seemed crazy we don't have a compass in our cockpit!
The compass only activates when you've left Orbital and Glide mode...so isn't particularly useful when you need to cover long distances...
What I do is activate orbital lines in the HUD and try and follow the planet along and parallel to its equator...you should see your longitude number changing rapidly with the latitude staying the roughly the same (close to 0) Then when you approach the Longitude you need turn 90 degrees north or south (towards the relevant pole) and fly along that line of Longitude till you reach your required latitude...
It'll get you close enough to leave orbital flight, glide in and then follow cybermkl 's instructions to get to the precise gridpoint you need...Always seemed crazy we don't have a compass in our cockpit!
This is what I do basically but one thing I do:
* In order to get the compass bearing you have to leave supercruise. The easiest way to do this is to enter glide and then immediately pull up to leave yourself in normal space but a very long way up. Then you can orientate correctly to due north.
* Renter SC and get the latitude correct and then drop again.
* Reorient to 90 degrees
* Reinter SC and get the logitude correct and then drop again.
* Do the fine adjusting on the planet surface you can easily move 2/3 lat/long points in normal flight mode.
Painfully obvious we needed the ability to flag a coordinate on a surface when Horizons landed, more painful is the thought we might not get that ability. Finding cords on the surface is not "hard" per se, but a giant PITA that is pointless. I can navigate 65k LYs across the galaxy but can't set a flag to a set of coords on a rocky moon.
Not even a thank you..............my goodness what is the world coming too?!?!?!
Sorry, was at work, hah, Thank you!
Sorry, was at work, hah, Thank you!
The best thing to do is go with a friend, get them to find the coordinates and then tell them to turn their wing beacon on ;-)
I totally agree. I wish they could extend the compass to Orbital Cruise. I mean, we're above a planet in Orbit. We need to know the compass setting to get our bearings. Maybe in the next point update? Who knows.
Why? I would have thought it painfully obvious that you should be able to follow a compass heading or navigate to simple coordinates. School children have been doing it for decades in orienteering.
Sarcasm aside, I can type a star reference into Gal map on the other side of the galaxy and go straight to it. I should have a similar system for planetary navigation. It does feel like an unfinished mechanic. Even my 21st century Sat nav can do it. When we finally get to land on built up civilised planets it's going to feel a bit odd having to wobble about in glide while looking for someone's house.
As stated it is not hard to do.....big difference when it's the convenience of not having to manually perform a function one would think is solved in the 34th century.
That! I can't get my head around it. It's a "pain".