Project Location

Using a simple wizard:

  1. Set the location of your wind farm site. Search by location name or latitude longitude coordinates. You can view the currently selected location in Google Maps or Bing Maps. The orange pushpin icon points to the current position of the site’s centre. Pan and zoom the map to find the site’s location then right-click and choose ‘Set the site location here’ from the popup menu to set the site’s location.

  2. Select the workbook projection system. Use the default provided (UTM with WGS84 datum) unless you have some background imagery or terrain that is in a specific projection. If a non-default projection system is required it can be defined by EPSG code, loaded from a .prj file or selected manually from the available drop-down lists. Further advanced attributes can be manually adjusted if required.

    Projection selection

  3. Download some background imagery and terrain. Following the instructions – define a rectangle on the map which to download imagery (define the rectangle to be slightly bigger than the area of your site) and hit the ‘Start Download’ button.

The site’s time zone will be set automatically depending on the site’s location.

If you wish to download/import terrain and use that in the workbook carry on to the next task.