tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post6888128875858487172..comments2024-03-28T03:15:14.875-07:00Comments on Unenumerated: Dead reckoning, maps, and errorsNick Szabohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16820399856274245684noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post-86302901763214227542014-01-13T11:01:25.779-08:002014-01-13T11:01:25.779-08:00Errors can cancel or they can accumulate. Interes...Errors can cancel or they can accumulate. Interesting revisionist view of the destruction of the Armada through the foibles of dead reckoning. Missing the current, the leeway, the magnetic deviation; suffering remarkably poor weather, and wounded from the British fleet, they foundered on the Irish coast 300nm from estimated position.<br />http://staff.washington.edu/rel2/geog100-UW/Scenarios/Navigation_the_Key_Armada_Disaster.htmlPaulHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post-50005344722686666402013-01-07T16:40:14.086-08:002013-01-07T16:40:14.086-08:00Long chain to get here - Sailer to Hsu to hbd* chi...Long chain to get here - Sailer to Hsu to hbd* chick to foseti to Unqualified Reservations to you. But I did a series on Wayfinding over a year ago that you might find interesting, and I liked the Chesterton reference.<br /><br />http://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2011/09/recent-conversations-wayfinding.htmlAssistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post-5339980503868247062012-10-29T13:48:39.112-07:002012-10-29T13:48:39.112-07:00Fixed, thanks.Fixed, thanks.nicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post-80809303597698814132012-10-29T12:21:05.828-07:002012-10-29T12:21:05.828-07:00NS: "the dead reckoning directions are of suf...NS: <i>"the dead reckoning directions are of sufficiently accuracy"</i><br /><br />Looks like a typo. Shouldn't it be "... directions are of sufficient accuracy" or "... directions are of sufficiently high accuracy"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com