An easy way to create a scale for your measurments is to land in your ship - take note of your lat/lon then go out in your srv 2000m or so while staying on the same lat or lon... Then u have a yardstick to compare the lat long measurments u take at either end of the site...
Edit- of course measuring things is much simpler if there are two commanders.. Just slect the other commander and look at the distance between you
Edit2.... Ok ya probably the easiest measurment would be a radius from the unknown device since that can be selected.... Ok going back to work
If you ant to detect, if a planetary structure grows, one could measure the distance of some point of the structures surface to a fix point. The better the precision in that measurement the sooner you detect growth. With long/latd we have 4 fractional digits. That makes for a planet with earth size (precision goes linear with planet's diameter):
~40,000 km / 360° = 111.11111_ km / 1° = 111111.11_ m / 1° = 11.11_ m / (1/10000)°
I.e. a preision of ~11m instead of the 1m precision that the SRV's HUD gives us to a selected target.
Edit- of course measuring things is much simpler if there are two commanders.. Just slect the other commander and look at the distance between you
Edit2.... Ok ya probably the easiest measurment would be a radius from the unknown device since that can be selected.... Ok going back to work
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