On Tue Feb 16 18:07:18 2010, Mason, Matt wrote:
In California at least, government entities like fire, CHP, and
others
still use Thomas Map page and coordinates.
<geoloc xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/geoloc' xml:lang='en'>
<ThomasBrothers>"22 0H"</ThomasBrothers>
<TBXY>"6365235:2283071"</TBXY>
</geoloc>
That would completely fail interop.
In the UK, Ordanance Survey map grid references are still used *very*
heavily, especially by mountain rescue, but they'll cheerfully
convert to Lat/Long for cases like this. (Indeed, they actually
convert *to* grid refs from the Lat/Long from the GPS).
Dave.
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