On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Jonathan Bennett < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> elvin ibbotson wrote: > > Steve, > > > > It looks like fakeSteveC or someone is pretending to be you and posting > > elitist, patronising, condescending rubbish in an apparent attempt to > > make you look foolish. I look forward to it being demonstrated that > > 'most people don't know what coordinates are'. > > > > elvin ibbotson > > "Most people" is not: > > Most people on this mailing list > Most people who contribute to OSM > Most people involved in GIS > Most people who know some programming > > "Most people" is the man, woman or child in the street, many of whom > will never have picked up a paper map, and will certainly never have > tried to take coordinates from one. > And the set of "most people" could be expanded if the statement is "most people don't know what coordinate _SYSTEMS_ are". It's a safe best that "most people" have heard of lat/long even if they don't know latitude from longitude - but the set of people who know the difference between WGS84 and UTM. Sorry for jumping in without context... -Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-209-6818 USGS Geographer Center of Excellence in GIScience PhD Student CU-Boulder - Geography
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