At the install day someone (sorry we never actually introduced ourselves) showed off Xplanet with debian developers listed on it...
He also showed us a website that gave out long and lats of any town... could he please send me the url?
Sorry to bother the list....
Me too.... I'm just updating a map here, and some of the coordinates look a little off.
Regards, Paul.
On Thursday 13 Jun 2002 10:23 pm, Ricardo Campos wrote:
He also showed us a website that gave out long and lats of any town... could he please send me the url?
Sorry to bother the list....
On Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:27 PM, Paul wrote:
Me too.... I'm just updating a map here, and some of the coordinates look a little off.
Regards, Paul.
On Thursday 13 Jun 2002 10:23 pm, Ricardo Campos wrote:
He also showed us a website that gave out long and lats of any town... could he please send me the url?
Sorry to bother the list....
Hi Paul & Ricardo,
I am not the bloke either of you are looking for but I use the Ordinance Survey Get-A-Map web site to look up co-ordinates of towns.
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/
HTH
Ian Douglas
Ian Douglas wrote:
On Thursday 13 Jun 2002 10:23 pm, Ricardo Campos wrote:
He also showed us a website that gave out long and lats of any town... could he please send me the url?
I am not the bloke either of you are looking for but I use the Ordinance Survey Get-A-Map web site to look up co-ordinates of towns.
You might also like to try http:///www.heavens-above.com
Apart from hours of endless fun satellite-spotting, you can select a location anywhere in the world and it will tell you the lat/long.
Jo
On 13-Jun-2002 Ricardo Campos wrote:
At the install day someone (sorry we never actually introduced ourselves) showed off Xplanet with debian developers listed on it...
He also showed us a website that gave out long and lats of any town... could he please send me the url?
Any atlas will give you that information in its index. Or is looking in a book too simple (and old fashioned) a solution?
Sorry to bother the list....
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Raphael Mankin wrote:
He also showed us a website that gave out long and lats of any town... could he please send me the url?
Any atlas will give you that information in its index. Or is looking in a book too simple (and old fashioned) a solution?
I don't know if it is the one that you saw, but:
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
generally does the business.
Ricardo Campos corez23@linuxmail.org wrote:
At the install day someone (sorry we never actually introduced ourselves) showed off Xplanet with debian developers listed on it...
That was me. Check out some of my stuff at:
http://people.debian.org/~edward/globe/
He also showed us a website that gave out long and lats of any town... could he please send me the url?
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
Hmm... Used the coordinates from this database for Auckland, New Zealand and found it to be several hundred miles too far east. Ho hum, time to double check in the World Atlas printed 1942.
Regards, Paul.
On Monday 17 Jun 2002 2:14 pm, Edward Betts wrote:
The co-ords in the DB are correct according to my Philips Atlas (old technology to the rescue). It looks as if your map base is wrong. Alternatively, you conversion from lat/long to map co-ordinates is up the swanee. Spherical trig is funny stuff; I know, I've done enough of it.
On 17-Jun-2002 Paul wrote:
Hmm... Used the coordinates from this database for Auckland, New Zealand and found it to be several hundred miles too far east. Ho hum, time to double check in the World Atlas printed 1942.
Regards, Paul.
On Monday 17 Jun 2002 2:14 pm, Edward Betts wrote:
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