Northing and Eastings software for WM6

papoo1969 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 20, 2008 Posts: 3

I have a HTC P6500 Pda and wondering if there is any software that i can use what can tell me northings and eastings of the location that i am standing on, i have tried a few stuff but after i have downloaded it, it only tells me longditude and latitude.
Thanks in advance
Sean

MaFt · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject:

positive longitude is also known as eastings and positive latitude is known as northings, isn't it?

or is it a specific format you need eg degrees, minutes seconds (eg 53 24 45), or degrees decimal-minutes (53 28.4553) or decimal degrees (53.34432)

it's a fairly easy calculation to convert between them. i thought google maps would do this?

MaFt

M8TJT

papoo1969 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 20, 2008 Posts: 3

Sorry i didnt tell you why i need the northings and eastings. My job title is Street works quality advisor ( hard to explain exactly what i do) the company i work for repair water, gas and electricity in public highways and a new bit of legislation came out on April 1st 2008 wich states that when we close a notice we must put on the R1 the northings and eastings (OSGB) of every excavation we dig so the local council can pin point our excavation rather than get mixed up with someone elses.

I have google maps on my PDA but it doesnt show coordinates. I tried TurboGPS but that shows N and W not N and E (good bit of software by the way) if i used longditude and latitude it would take me ages to convert to N & E and i simply dont have the time to do this becouse of the amount of excavations i check.

M8TJT · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:48 pm Post subject:

As I said earlier, Tchart's Speed Sentry gives OSGB co-ordinates (amongst others) in the form TQ 75966 08090 for Lat 50.8455 Lon 0.4981.
Is this not what you want??

papoo1969 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 20, 2008 Posts: 3

yep thanks i downloaded the trial last night and i will trial it out on tuesday when i go back to work, i will let you know how it goes, thanks for your help.

Sean

mikealder · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject:

Don't forget Speed Sentry is also a very effective speed camera warner when the Pocket GPS World database is installed to the device and configured - Mike

M8TJT · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject:

It certainly is. It's a pitty it does not have a 'one touch' co-ordinate logger for marking speed cam positions etc. I have a copy of GPS Dash, in which you just click one of the hardware buttons on my Mio, to record the current position in a log file. It works a treat, if I can remember to start it.

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