Plotting Tracks and Events
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Mundane astrologers often have an interest in major weather events, earthquakes, and other geographically related phenomena.
Solar Maps makes it possible to plot these events (either singly or in composite) on its maps, and allows chart planetary lines for any related astrological chart to be displayed simultaneously if required.
There are two categories of geographic phenomena which may be plotted in Solar Maps:
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Tracks – a collection of linked individual events (date-times and locations) which may be plotted as a track across the earth’s surface, such as a hurricane track or a ship’s course. |
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Events – a collection of individual events (date-time and location) which may be plotted as individual locations, such as a collection of earthquakes epicentres, battles or volcanic eruptions. |
Whilst this feature may be used to plot any events or tracks of almost any nature, special provisions have been added to make it especially easy to import and plot storm tracks and earthquakes using well-used data formats and data which is freely available on the web. In particular, the following two types of data may be readily used.
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UniSys Hurricanes - Historical and current storm and hurricane tracks from around the world from the UniSys web site. |
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NEIC Earthquakes - Historical and recent earthquakes from the NEIC web site. |
Topic Categories
Supplied Track/Event Collections
Selecting a Tracking Event to Display
Track or Event Plotting Styles and Colors
Creating a New Track or Event Collection
Editing a Track or Event Collection