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Article #487Re: V&H to Lat/Long?
From: Dave Null Sr.
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:26
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:26
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 20:01:26 GMT, nobody@uunet.ca (Ralph) wrote in news:3f0339d7.246053741@news2.istop.com: > On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 19:52:33 GMT, nobody@uunet.ca (Ralph) wrote: > >>On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:38:26 -0400, Tegger >><teggeratistopdotcom@changetheobvious.invalid> wrote: >>>Does this help? >>>http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PC_PROD/pc_prod.shtml#UTMS >> >>Hmmm... maybe. I'll check it out if I can get it to download. > > Program runs, but doesn't take V&H as input. It takes some other > (seemingly metric) coordinate systems I don't recognize: > > DO YOU WANT TO COMPUTE: > > 1 GEODETIC POSITIONS TO UTM COORDINATES > 2 UTM COORDINATES TO GEODETIC POSITIONS > 3 PRINT THE OUTPUT FILE ON THE PRINTER > TYPE NUMBER 2 > > > WHICH ELLIPSOID DO YOU WANT ANSWER: > 1. CLARKE 1866 > 2. GRS80/WGS84 > 3. INTERNATIONAL 1910 > 4. WGS72 > 5. OTHER ELLIPSOID UTM (as I outlined in another post) is a grid based on dropping cylinders at uniform spacings around the globe. This program converts from a UTM zone to lat/long and requires another parameter which tries to compensate for the fact that the globe is not round. GeoCaching uses WGS84 as the datum (ellipsoid) (IIRC)
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Subject: Re: V&H to Lat/Long?
From: "Dave Null Sr." <lrowoy@ShNotmail.com>
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