I offered to help a friend start his new project “The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway” We needed to create a new route, of course and used the facility in TS2017 to do this but we had really difficult time getting the correct co-ordinates from Google Earth.
I wonder now if indeed Google Earth gives a correct Latitude and Longitude off the cursor?
As you can see from the enclosed pictures the current station where the preserved line in Devon is 51.12.06 North and 3.53.16 West (that was read off the Cursor)
This is the required location
When you start a route in TS you select the Ground Texture Set, give the route a name and add the Latitude and Longitude and click create.
BUT after laying a few feet of track just to see if the start is in the correct place Train Sim Live Maps puts us in a different place on the map.
If you go back to Google Earth and enter the LAT & LONG in the search box Google also sends you to the same spot as TS Live Maps but the LAT & LONG are the same as the ones entered and read from the Cursor.
Please, what goes on ?
Cheer John
