Hi,
I had an idea that I was going to try this week which involved trying out the rectangles location data function (as opposed to circles). Looking at the rectangular entry screen in the Sentinel Favorites List Editor, there are only two sets of co-ordinate entries (two pairs of lat/longs) per rectangle. This implies to me that the sides of the rectangle must conform to 0°/90°/180°/270° headings. Is this correct?
I was hoping for something more along the lines of this rectangular shape, for reasons which should be obvious if you look at the map:
In order to effectively use rectangles to delineate the railways in Alberta, with the "squared" side requirement, would take dozens of small rectangles for each section within a county/city. I don't want to make several large rectangles/squares that overlap large portions of the area surrounding the railway, because the signal is quite directional and I'd rather not hear the staticky, garbled sounds when I'm 15 miles away perpendicularly to a rail line.
I guess what I'm trying to use in the pic above is somewhat more of a polygon than a rectangle, using Uniden's definition of rectangle. Am I right?
I had an idea that I was going to try this week which involved trying out the rectangles location data function (as opposed to circles). Looking at the rectangular entry screen in the Sentinel Favorites List Editor, there are only two sets of co-ordinate entries (two pairs of lat/longs) per rectangle. This implies to me that the sides of the rectangle must conform to 0°/90°/180°/270° headings. Is this correct?
I was hoping for something more along the lines of this rectangular shape, for reasons which should be obvious if you look at the map:
In order to effectively use rectangles to delineate the railways in Alberta, with the "squared" side requirement, would take dozens of small rectangles for each section within a county/city. I don't want to make several large rectangles/squares that overlap large portions of the area surrounding the railway, because the signal is quite directional and I'd rather not hear the staticky, garbled sounds when I'm 15 miles away perpendicularly to a rail line.
I guess what I'm trying to use in the pic above is somewhat more of a polygon than a rectangle, using Uniden's definition of rectangle. Am I right?
