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Re: Beginner
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2005 Sep 11, 21:07 +0300
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2005 Sep 11, 21:07 +0300
Willem Piccer wrote >I have a Norie's Nautical tables from 1964 which gives a position for > Trondheim of 63 27 N 09 44 E > Compare this with what Asbjorn gave us: 63 25,4 N 10 24.7 E > May-be Asbjorn took his GPS position from a list as did both Geoffrey > Kolbe > and George Huxtable. Just for those who do not know, there is a map on the Internet with the possibility to find locations by coordinates or deduce the coordinates for a known location. The values seem rather accurate. Asbjorn's coordinates correspond to http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=63.4233&lon=10.4117&scale=50000&icon=x It also should be mentioned that there do exist some differences between GPS, European and other national mapping coordinates. Some maps do indicate this difference. Marcel
