RE: SUM: MI Importing Autocad .dwg file to BNG

2000-02-15 Thread Hayes, Andrew
ebruary 14, 2000 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Importing Autocad .dwg file to BNG Hi all, I am pretty naive when it comes to projections etc. I have received an Autocad .dwg file and it is requested that I import this into MapInfo in British National Grid. MapInfo only seems to al

Re: MI Importing Autocad .dwg file to BNG

2000-02-14 Thread Cliff Mugnier - University of New Orleans
Andrew, My guess is that you may have mixed up the order of the components of your coordinates in some way. For example, Your BNG example for X = 429362.55 Y = 414762.18 correctly corresponds to Lat = 53* 37' 41.9919" N Lon = -1* 33' 21.4452" W. If we swap Lat and Long components and compu

MI Importing Autocad .dwg file to BNG

2000-02-14 Thread Hayes, Andrew
Hi all, I am pretty naive when it comes to projections etc. I have received an Autocad .dwg file and it is requested that I import this into MapInfo in British National Grid. MapInfo only seems to allow the importing of autocad.dxf files, so I converted the file to MI.tab file using Geographic