Re: [mapserver-users] GPS to GIS

2008-08-07 Thread Benoît Andrieu
Hi Peter, What do you mean with 'GIS' coordinates ? For me, GIS means Geographic Information System and is a very common term. Looking at your 'GIS' coordinates I would say that your GIS coordinate system is a UTM 32 coordinate system. And in your case, you could use cs2cs

Re: [mapserver-users] GPS to GIS

2008-08-07 Thread Peter Falk
Hi Guys, Thanks for your input. It's been a great help. The fact that I'm now aware of the translation - from WGS84 to UTM Zone 32 - has narrowed the problem down. Peter Benoît Andrieu skrev: Hi Peter, What do you mean with 'GIS' coordinates ? For me, GIS means Geographic Information

Re: [mapserver-users] GPS to GIS

2008-08-06 Thread Christy Nieman
I've used GPSBabel (http://www.gpsbabel.org) to download data from my GPS and get them into more usable formats. It can also convert between formats. I'm not sure what you mean by converting between GPS and GIS coordinates. If you have a delimited table of coordinates you should be able to

RE: [mapserver-users] GPS to GIS

2008-08-06 Thread Fawcett, David
Falk Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:58 AM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] GPS to GIS Thanks for your reply. My intension was to convert CPS-coords to GIS-coords on the fly and for that purpose I needed a piece of scripting (an algorithm). But if GPSBabel can