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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Published maps: use of Decimal degrees or |
| Date: |
02/28/2006 08:25:01 PM |
| From: |
Mike Flannigan |
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I use D-M-S since I primarily use 7.5' topos. It makes
more sense to use decimal degrees, or for people solidly
within one UTM zone, UTM corrdinates would probably
be best.
Mike
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, g.k.mcgregor@ru.ac.za wrote:
>Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:58:51 +0200
>From: "Gillian McGregor" <g.k.mcgregor@ru.ac.za>
>Subject: [gislist] Published maps: use of Decimal degrees or
> Degrees/Minutes/Seconds
>To: <gislist@lists.geocomm.com>
>Message-ID: <20060228125902.0C26133@mail.thinkburst.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain: charset="us-ascii"
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>In the past Degrees/Minutes/Seconds was the accepted form of representation
>for co-ords, on maps going in to a publication, but increasingly authors are
>using decimal degrees. For myself - I know that I use decimal degrees
>because it's what ArcView reads. Does anyone have any comments on this?
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>Is there any formal standardization?
>
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