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authorPeter Karlsson <peterk>2001-05-26 20:46:48 +0000
committerPeter Karlsson <peterk>2001-05-26 20:46:48 +0000
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Updated a number of links that had moved. Also removed a hyphe-
nated word that would look bad in the HTML version. CVS version numbers english/devel/developers.loc.wml: 1.4 -> 1.5
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@@ -22,10 +22,14 @@ locations:
<li>GPS locations for airports: <a href="http://www.airnav.com/">http://www.airnav.com/</a>
<li>By zip code (US only): <a href="http://www.geocode.com/eagle.html-ssi">http://www.geocode.com/eagle.html-ssi</a>
<li>Canadian, US and some European maps: <a href="http://www.mapblast.com/">http://www.mapblast.com/</a>
-<li>Australian database: <a href="http://www.environment.gov.au/database/MAN200R.html">http://www.environment.gov.au/database/MAN200R.html</a>
+<li>Australian database:
+ <a href="http://www.auslig.gov.au/mapping/names/names.htm">http://www.auslig.gov.au/mapping/names/names.htm</a>
<li>Canadian database: <a href="http://GeoNames.NRCan.gc.ca/">http://GeoNames.NRCan.gc.ca/</a>
-<li>Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names: <a href="http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser/">http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser/</a>
-<li>Get your coordinates and horoscope too: <a href="http://www.astro.com/atlas/">http://www.astro.com/atlas/</a>
+<li>Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names:
+ <a href="http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/">http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/</a>
+<li>Get your coordinates and horoscope too:
+ <a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e">http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e</a>
+# lang=g yields the German version
</ul>
<p>The format for coordinates is one of the following:
@@ -43,13 +47,15 @@ locations:
from NMEA format GPS messages.
<dt>Degrees Minutes Seconds (DGMS)
<dd>The format is +-DDDMMSS.SSSSSSSSSSS. Like DGM, it
- is not an arithmetic type but a packed representa-
- tion of three seperate units, degrees minutes and
+ is not an arithmetic type but a packed representation
+ of three seperate units: degrees, minutes and
seconds. This output is typically derived from web
sites that give 3 values for each position. For
instance 34:50:12.24523 North might be the position
given, in DGMS it would be +0345012.24523.
</dl>
+
+<p>
For Latitude + is North, for Longitude + is East. It is
important to specify enough leading zeros to dis-ambiguate
the format that is being used if your position is less

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