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Topic: OSGB, LAT/LONG, Co-Ordinate Converting |
barryhunter
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Forum: Other Software Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:32 pm Subject: OSGB, LAT/LONG, Co-Ordinate Converting |
Seems I havent checked this forum for a while
I haven't got any sort of batch interface, (yet). But if you can send me the list of postcodes, I can easily create a list of lat/long's for j ... |
Topic: OSGB and BNG |
barryhunter
Replies: 5
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Forum: Advanced GPS Lounge Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:46 pm Subject: OSGB and BNG |
OSGB (or more correctly OSGB36) and BNG (British National Grid) are one and the same.
As pointed out there are two main formats to write the same thing.
Eastings/Northings which is meters from ... |
Topic: Microsoft Patent, or is it ? |
barryhunter
Replies: 12
Views: 7928
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:23 pm Subject: Microsoft Patent, or is it ? |
Sorry to be replying to myself but reading http://www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/ i see this:
February 9, 2005 - Does Microsoft Infringe the Natural Area Coding System?
Tuesday, 08 February 2005 Toronto, ... |
Topic: Microsoft Patent, or is it ? |
barryhunter
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Views: 7928
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:15 pm Subject: Microsoft Patent, or is it ? |
Also Skippy's idea of the variable length code reminded me of something similar which is dubbed Universal Address, see
http://www.travelgis.com/
Although I havent fully read about and figured out ho ... |
Topic: Microsoft Patent, or is it ? |
barryhunter
Replies: 12
Views: 7928
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:06 pm Subject: Microsoft Patent, or is it ? |
Why not just use IARU Locator or QRA-Locator ([url=http://www.arrl.org/locate/gridinfo.html]more)
This is used by Radio Ameters and gives nice short locations like IO34TN
which is accurate to about ... |
Topic: OSGB, LAT/LONG, Co-Ordinate Converting |
barryhunter
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Forum: Other Software Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:57 pm Subject: OSGB, LAT/LONG, Co-Ordinate Converting |
I have a coordinate converter on my website:
http://www.deformedweb.co.uk/trigs/coord.cgi
This will convert between OSGB36 (either Grid Reference or Easting/Northing) and WGS84 in lat long. It a ... |
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