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davidmorgan
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|  New Message Posted!2011-09-21 13:20
I've been using the spelling "talaiot" on site pages - e.g. "Talaiot (Broch or Nuraghe) in Balearic Isles (Mallorca)".
I hope that's OK.
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SolarMegalith
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| New Message Posted!2011-09-21 11:19
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On 2011-09-20 18:18, davidmorgan wrote:
I see the Mallorcan equivalent of a "Broch or Nuraghe" is a "Talayot".
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There is also a Corsican equivalent called torre, very similar to the nuraghe (probably there were contacts between Corsica and Sardinia both in Neolithic and Bronze Age).
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TheCaptain
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| New Message Posted!2011-09-21 00:47
sorry to not reply before - stupidly busy at the moment. We are currently tasked with doing a job which has failed to be done in the last 8 months - with a 2 week time frame.
I guess if you mean the UK OS grid ref sites with no accuracy rating, then most will probably be OK.
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Andy B
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| New Message Posted!2011-09-20 19:13
> I don't know how the site page selects Panoramio photos, but I think it should be picking up these photos here at the Xemxija Roman Apiaries.
It's done by querying all the Panoramio images within a 1km (I think) radius of the long/lat location we have set. So if an image isn't coming up, either our coordinates are out, or the Panoramio ones are out.
Thanks also locating news items, we just had big upload of news (for which thanks to you Coldrum as well!)
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davidmorgan
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| New Message Posted!2011-09-20 18:18
I see the Mallorcan equivalent of a "Broch or Nuraghe" is a "Talayot".
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davidmorgan
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| New Message Posted!2011-09-20 10:12
I now know more about minor Maltese sites than I intended (and next to nothing about the major ones!). Some nice "cart tracks", though.
I don't know how the site page selects Panoramio photos, but I think it should be picking up these photos here at the Xemxija Roman Apiaries.
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Andy B
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| New Message Posted!2011-09-20 09:10
> Should I just pick the best candidates and go for that?
Yes, thanks FC
Martin, that does seem to be why so many are repeats, as we didn't know they were there. It's good to get the duplicates deleted.
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Martin_L
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| New Message Posted!2011-09-20 06:30
Netherlands "G2"
In fact it is "G2 Glimmer es"
I created a site page some time ago in 2010. It is almost completely destroyed, but position is known and some pit remains.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=27265. These sites without coordinates are impossible/difficult to find when adding a new site page: Back in 2010 I used the "search", but "G2" was not displayed. And as it had no coordinates the "search for nearby sites" did not help either. Will delete the "G2" site page in the evening.
Martin
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frogcottage42
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| New Message Posted!2011-09-20 00:21
I have been a bit busy of late but will do something abut some of the Eirann sites.
There is a small problem in as much as for instance Cappanaboul, the site you are trying to pin down is listed as a menhir. Without more information it could be any one of twenty or so in the area.
Similarly another is listed a wedge tomb and although not common there is more than one that could be given that townland name.
Should I just pick the best candidates and go for that?
I haven,t added anything so far this year because the weather here has been total crap!
Roll on winter it may be dryer.
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Andy B
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| New Message Posted!2011-09-19 18:24
Martyn,
I understand your concern with over zealous accuracy, however we have had the accuracy indicator for at least 5 years now, it's compulsory for all new sites and we have all been adding accuracy manually as we edit sites. However as of now we still have
5220 sites with 6 digit grid refs and no accuracy indication and
1203 sites with 8 digit grid refs but no accuracy.
This is out of 12777 sites with grid refs (ie UK and Irish sites)
I agree that we can't infer an accuracy from sites that just have long/lat but as of now just about half of our UK and Irish sites with grid refs don't have any accuracy set at all.
So if we were to do a sweep through once setting the missing ones then yes some might be wrong but wouldn't it be an improvement overall? Perhaps accuracy 3 'bad map' for 6 digits and 4 'detailed map' for 8 digits (which would be a bit more conservative on the accuracy front than we do by hand)
Andy
(in other words if we were to publish a list of "accuracy=0" sites it would be about 6000 sites long so not very manageable to sort out by hand!)
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