RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs

[Brian Butterworth]

It's not just lat and longs, but you can use the height above sea-level too:

 

Freeview transmitters: http://www.ukfree.tv/kmls.php

 

UK analogue shutdown/digital switchover tour:  http://www.ukfree.tv/kmla.php

Brian Butterworth

www.ukfree.tv

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Cartwright
Sent: 01 November 2006 10:54
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs

So it is... a KMZ is a zipped KML, which is a whole hunk of loverly parsable XML (in this case 32mb of it).

 

I didn't know that. Nice.

 

J

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester
Sent: 01 November 2006 10:34
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs

Wow that's a awesome find!

 

Good stuff, but I would have thought the KML file would be easier to work on because its simply XML right?

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Cartwright
Sent: 31 October 2006 15:20
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs

http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index_en.htm

 

What a goldmine - all the latt/longs extracted from Wikipedia and compiled into a CSV.

 

J

 

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