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Re: ISO latitude/longitude standard formats
From: Victor Reijs
Date: 2002 Jan 09, 2:24 AM
From: Victor Reijs
Date: 2002 Jan 09, 2:24 AM
Hello Paul, They also specify altitude. I thought that the word 'altitude' was used for the number of degrees about the horizon. But here it is 'height'! Can someone tell me when to use the word 'height' and 'altitude'? I am not a native English speaker... All the best, Victor Paul Hirose wrote: > > Did you know the ISO has a standard for representing latitude and > longitude? I didn't, until I came across it by accident. Here's a > place where you can download ISO 6709. There's a link to view a > summary of the standard, and farther down the page is a link to > download the actual PDF. It's about 188 k. Remember the number, 6709,