Hi David, You may have missed my point.... I recognize degrees, minutes and decimals of minutes is a good form of GPS. My point is that when gathering GPS locations, from the Internet and books, most are in decimals of degrees format. Thus, converting them to Legacy format is a pain in the a--. I use these GPS locations for all my rural cemeteries and farm locations, in my family they mostly farmers and all were buried in small local (family)cemeteries. With decimals of degrees I can get down the feet of finding any thing. I hope you understand my concern.... It's just the converting. When Legacy was gathering input for the new version 7, I suggested having the choice (option) of either degrees, minutes and decimals of minutes or decimals of degrees, Geoff liked the idea and e-mail me to say so..... But it never happened. I was just wondering why. I have copied Geoff on this matter, but he has not to responded.
Best, Larry -------Original Message------- From: David Date: 06/16/08 00:03:20 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.Com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Version 7 Lat/Long format Larry, As a mariner/navigator my opinion is that Millennia are doing it exactly right. We use degrees, minutes and decimals of minutes. One minute of Lat. = 1 nautical mile so when we talk in minutes we are talking in miles, as it always has been. The Lat. Scale on the side of nautical charts is in degrees and minutes therefore, when we measure off that scale we get miles. It's just one area where decimalisation doesn't work. Using decimals of degrees is, to me, all wrong. I don't know why some people do it. I'd like to think that Millennia are doing it right for my reasons but I honestly don't know. Regards, Dave (NZ). From: Larry Wilson Sent: Mon 16/06/2008 02:05 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.Com Subject: [LegacyUG] Version 7 Lat/Long format Since most of the Internet sites use decimal GPS locations (Latitude: 37 59778 : Longitude: -92.92222), I was wondering why Legacy is locked into (DDMMSS.xxx) GPS? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
