GOM - the Global Overlay Mapping System

The Status Bar.

The Status Bar, located at the bottom edge of your browser, shows a variety of information once a map has been loaded, depending on the current position of your cursor. The information is in 8 parts, as follows: (Left-Right)

  1. Latitude of the cursor, in degrees, tenths, and hundredths of a degree, with N for points North of the Equator & S for points South of it.
  2. Longitude of the cursor, in degrees,tenths, and hundredths of a degree, with E for points East of the Greenwich Prime Meridian & W for points West of it.
  3. Grid Locator of the cursor, with full six-character precision, allowing any point to be identified to within better than 5.6 nautical miles, anywhere on the surface of the Earth.
  4. Your registered callsign.
  5. The distance from your registered position to the current cursor position, in Statute Miles.
  6. The distance from your registered position to the current cursor position, in Kilometres.
  7. The short-path Great-Circle bearing from your registered position to the current cursor position, allowing you to know which direction to point your antennas.
  8. The long-path Great-Circle bearing from your registered position to the current cursor position, for those who wish to try long-path communication.

You are probably looking at the status bar now and wondering why it shows the callsign 'EI8IC, and the bearing/distance to a location in the West of Ireland. This is because you have not entered your own details to let the program know who you are and where you are located. You can find out how to do this on the User Details page. Note that if you want the progam to remember your own user-details every time it starts, you will need to register it. See the Register page to find out how to do that.