FAQ

If you wish to send us locations of aqueduct remains, or the trace of an aqueduct on the ground, you can send us a drawing or map, but the best and easiest way is do to mark locations or traces of aqueducts in GoogleEarth. This is done as follows, once you have installed GoogleEarth on your computer:

Enter a location

• Open Google Earth
• to enter an element as a single point, called a "place mark" in Google Earth, click the yellow pin in the bar above the Google Earth Window. The pin will appear on the Google Earth Globe and a window will open where you can enter your data; zoom in on the map until you can recognise features in the area where the element is located, and drag the pin to the right position. If you know the coordinates, you can also type those in and position your pin this way.
  
• press "description" and enter the name of your element under "Name", and insert the text you want to give to describe it in the field "description". Here you could describe the item, give measures, references etc.
• check that the pin is the right position, and if so, press OK.

The placemark will now appear in the "places" list at the left side of the globe. When you prepare several elements, please add a Folder under the Google Earth menu "Add" and place all your elements in the folder by dragging them in.

• if you have saved your element, but want to make further changes, edit it by clicking on it in the "places" list with the right mouse button. Alternatively, you can click on it with the right mouse button in the map itself, and choose "get info" in the dropdown menu.
• remove elements by activating them, then press "delete"
• save what you did under "file>save>save my places". Note that GoogleEarth does not automatically save your work.

Drawing an aqueduct track

Drawing an aqueduct track will be done by the ROMAQ team, using the data you provide, but in some cases, e.g. if you can remember the locations in the terrain, but cannot find it on a map, it may be better if you draw sections of the aqueduct yourself. You can proceed as follows:

• click the three blue dots in the bar above the Google Earth Window. This will create a "path"
  
  A white square will appear on the Google Earth Globe as a cursor; enlarge the field of view until you can recognise features in the area where the element is located, and click to outline your aqueduct path. Active nodes are blue, and you can drag these around; activate other nodes by clicking on them with the mouse. You can add nodes in the line by clicking, activating the node next to the place where an extra node is needed (in fact, before it in the sequence in which the nodes were first inserted). You can remove active (blue) nodes with the right mouse button.
  
• press "description" and enter the name of your aqueduct under "Name", and insert the text you want to give to describe the aqueduct it in the field "description"
• check that the aqueduct path is the right position, and if so, press OK.

The aqueduct track will now appear in the "places" bar at the left side of the globe as a white triangle. You can add a Folder under the Google Earth menu "Add" and place all your elements in the folder by dragging them in.

• if you have saved your aqueduct, but want to make further changes, edit it by clicking on it in the "places" bar with the right mouse button. Alternatively, you can click on it with the right mouse button in the map itself, and choose "get info" from the dropdown menu.
• remove paths by activating them, then press "delete"
• save what you did under "file>save>save my places". Note that GoogleEarth does not automatically save your work.

Saving and sending

Once placemarks, polygons or tracks are complete and stored in a folder, please select the folder in the "Places "list at left and save it under "File>Save>Save Place as". Save the folder as a .kmz or .kml file. Send this file to APRA as an attachment to an email. In the email, you can give further explanation. We will add the material to the existing databases, with a reference to your contribution as an acknowledgement. Any photographs you send remain your property and under your copyright.

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