26-08-2008, 13:40
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Re: Google Earth.
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Originally Posted by Retlaw
You can't get it without degrees and the result is still the same
2 deg 27'23.03 x 53 deg 42'12.02, and the litle hand is slap bang on the chimney stack.
When I zoom in to the word Holden Fold, the blue car is at
53 deg 42'12.67 x 2 deg 27'30.01
Retlaw.
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The coordinates that I quoted:
2° 27’23.03” W to 2° 27’23.47” W and 53° 42’12.02” N to 53° 42’12.53” N.
are at the extremities of my flat grounds and as it is in a semi detached building the chimney stack is one extremity.
The centre of my car is at 53° 42’12.83” N and 2° 27’23.12” W
With a little hand to position it is difficult to ensure that the centre of the hand is on the centre of the car so there will be variations in your figures and mine. A one pixel movement could be the difference of just one hundredth of a second in the coordinates.
But to all intents and purposes we are both right and we are both wrong.
The real question now is will this forum accept the symbol for degrees? Yahoo! Yes it does.
So my car is 53 degrees, 42 minutes and 12.83 seconds North and 2 degrees, 27 minutes and 23.12 seconds west.
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