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author | Peter Karlsson <peterk> | 2001-05-26 20:46:48 +0000 |
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committer | Peter Karlsson <peterk> | 2001-05-26 20:46:48 +0000 |
commit | 5f176f7a22a355d8a51c7c49803594c29003f544 (patch) | |
tree | 92489eb1e4191a09f5d70959b5a849b86e42399c /english/devel/developers.loc.wml | |
parent | 9787c49af989e0b758388d5bb8f2292a918516e6 (diff) |
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
Diffstat (limited to 'english/devel/developers.loc.wml')
-rw-r--r-- | english/devel/developers.loc.wml | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/english/devel/developers.loc.wml b/english/devel/developers.loc.wml index a1303d37f4e..4bc1822d71c 100644 --- a/english/devel/developers.loc.wml +++ b/english/devel/developers.loc.wml @@ -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 |