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Re: Question to the list
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Apr 5, 13:37 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Apr 5, 13:37 -0700
NEAT (on "what's here") -- never noticed that before.
And thanks for the clarification on input syntax. I had only seen the ability to enter degrees and decimals and hadn't explored mm.mm and mm ss formats.
Lu
From: Frank Reed <FrankReed@HistoricalAtlas.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 1:13 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Question to the list
Lu, you wrote:
"Entering lat/long into Google Maps is extremely simple -- just type in a pair of numbers."Yep. Simple as that. Google Maps also understands degrees, minutes, and seconds, but it's picky about the exact syntax. Drop this in the search box at Google Maps: 41 56' 53" N, 87 39' 20" W. That should take you to second base at Wrigley Field here in Chicago. Based on some quick experiments, the N/S, E/W tags are critical. You can leave out seconds and minutes and even the comma separator, so searching on "40 N 74 W" takes you to a spot just a few miles off the New Jersey coast. The hash marks on minutes and seconds are optional. Searching on "41 21 46.9 N 71 57 48.4 W" takes you to the exact spot where I was teaching Introductory Celestial Navigation in the former library building at Mystic Seaport this past weekend. And decimal degrees work, too. Searching on "0.0 N 91.3488 W" takes you to a spot in the Galapagos Islands.If no one has mentioned it, there's also a very easy way to invert this and get the lat, lon pair from a point. Right-click on the map at the desired point. From the sub-menu, select "What's here?". The decimal lat/lon will now appear in the search box. Can anyone figure out a way to make this happen in iOS (iPhone, iPad) or in Android ?-FER
PS: Congratulations to Alex for the most informative subject text we've seen in ages: "Question to the list". Bravo! ;)
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