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| From: | Neil Cheshire <> |
| Date: | Thu, 24 Sep 2015 01:43:54 +0000 |
Greetings What is the point of converting the time honoured Latitude and Longitude into 57 trillion meaningless three word phrases? Considering Latitude, Degrees, Minutes and decimals of a minute, the third decimal of a minute fixes the North/South location to 1.8 metres. Considering Longitude, the third decimal of a minute fixes the East/West location to 1.8 metres at the equator reducing to zero metres at the poles. These are readily available on a GPS receiver. Why bother with the other nonsense? Neil Cheshire <HR> <BR> Birding-Aus mailing list <BR> <BR> To change settings or unsubscribe visit: <BR> http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org </HR> |
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