Wilfred L. Guerin wrote:
I am driven to ask this to the community, since there is absolutely no coherent data sets from any source we've found over many years, including the local governments, for the area around 7.12N,-71.22W and eastward to the -71.22W lattitude southward and a 50-100km radius.
Last week, I was notified by a student that a google map query for "7.22n,-71.12w" or any derivative resolved to a place called "SPY HILL, Sasquachegan, Canada" and a specific selection of roads there.
It's The Village of Spy Hill, Saskatchewan, Canada: http://vila.sasktelwebsite.net/ The reason your student got this result is because a search for "7.12N,-71.22W" gets interpreted as a request to find an Address, not a latitude/longitude pair, and if you have 'the right map' displayed in Google Maps, it finds the address '12' on Highway 22 in The Village of Spy Hill. Load the Google Maps page, and before doing the search, zoom out so the whole world is shown on the map, and you get different results(i.e. addresses in Hungary, Poland, etc.). If you formulate the search 'properly'(there are a number of forms to use to do this, including +7° 7' 12", -71° 13' 12", 7.12N,71.22W, etc) Google Maps will show the proper location. -- Dave Patton System Developer National Forest Inventory Pacific Forestry Centre Natural Resources Canada Degree Confluence Project: Canadian Coordinator Technical Coordinator http://www.confluence.org/ OSGeo FOSS4G2007 conference: Workshop Committee Chair Conference Committee member http://www.foss4g2007.org/ Personal website: Maps, GPS, etc. http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
