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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pauline B.
Cramer
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 12:21 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
We are bouncing between my Legacy location list, Virtual Earth
I think it has everything to do with Legacy when people can't understand
why their coordinates for a cemetery take them to the middle of a river
in a program they expect to correctly plot with GPS. Some understanding
of the technology is necessary before some people can understand what
Legacy
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:13 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
I think it has everything to do with Legacy when people can't understand why
their coordinates for a cemetery take them
lat and long format
It would be nice if Legacy would give you a choice of which one to work
with
like all the other Options.
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From: Pat Hickin
Date: 7/30/2008 10:01:10 AM
To: LEGACY
Subject: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
Findagrave gives the plot location
I used the GPS converter the other day and it put my location of a cemetery in
the middle of the Hudson River. I had to move the push pin manually to a spot I
thought the cemetery should be in, in the middle of the woods.
Elsie
Legacy User Group guidelines:
I'm not surprised that the online locator is wrong. That information is
only as good the underlying source data. The locations that the online
mapping serices (and your GPS) use are from maps that may or may not be
accurate. Urban areas that justify the time/expense of an actual
drive-through
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To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
I'm not surprised that the online locator is wrong. That information is
only as good the underlying source data. The locations that the online
mapping serices
Carter
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
I'm not surprised that the online locator is wrong. That information is
only as good the underlying source data. The locations that the online
mapping serices (and your GPS) use
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
That depends. My understanding is that when receiving signals from multiple
satellites it should be accurate to 3 feet. However, the *map* that the
coordinates show on may not be accurate.
Gary
) Thompson
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From: John Carter
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
I'm not surprised that the online locator is wrong. That information
is
only as good the underlying source data. The locations that the online
Elizabeth Richardson wrote:
GPS is not all that accurate anyway. I live in a maritime community,
where the shoreline hasn't changed, and I cannot tell you how often I
walk on water. ;)
Ahem! By definition, maritime coastlines change on each change of tide.
Do you think you're immune from
The mapping feature appears to place locations to the nearest minute. I
spent an hour the other day relocating all the 'pushpins' to the spots on
the map that were actually identified as the place
The GPS location then changed to a miniscule 4 decimal points of a second
(e.g., N514259.0189)
It
/changing.
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
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From: Mike Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
- Original Message - From: Mike Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
Elizabeth Richardson
PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
Elizabeth Richardson wrote:
GPS is not all that accurate anyway. I live in a maritime community, where
the shoreline hasn't changed, and I cannot tell you how often I walk on
water. ;)
Ahem! By definition, maritime coastlines change
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
That's neither here nor there...but I do know that
GPS units vary in quality
and some of the lesser units are not nearly as
accurate as one would wish.
The higher end GPS units are much more accurate
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS lat and long format
That's neither here nor there...but I do know that
GPS units vary in quality
and some of the lesser units are not nearly as
accurate as one would wish.
The higher end GPS units are much more accurate...
and the plotting
Findagrave gives the plot location of a grave as
GPS 37.36263 - 79.84933
Legacy won't accept it and says, in the Help section (I couldn't copy
the error message but in effect it's the same thing):
The latitude and longitude must be in the form of degrees, minutes and
seconds. The degrees
Go to Master Location List
Highlight the place you are using, choose 'Edit'
To the right of the word Longitutde is a 'Calcuator'
Choose it.
Put the first number in the box Decimal
Hit Convert to 'Lat1'
Put second number in same box, Convert to 'Long1'
Choose Return1.
You have no moved the
Pat Hickin wrote:
Findagrave gives the plot location of a grave as
GPS 37.36263 - 79.84933
Legacy won't accept it and says, in the Help section (I couldn't copy
the error message but in effect it's the same thing):
Try the 'Bearing And Distance Calculator'. You can convert the decimal
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