Will- Well, that's sort of true...there are quite a few places that still have NAD 27, NAD 83 topos and match their GIS's to that NAD.
Are you sure that all civilian GPS's are by default assigned the wgs84 datum? If you are correct, then I stand corrected and shouldn't have been a worrywort about not everybody being on the same datum. -Don > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:25:43 -0800 > Subject: [ENTS] Re: GPS > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > The standard datum on GPS units is wgs84. Datum comes into play with > maps which are referenced in a variety of datums, in the us, NAD 27 > and NAD 83. As the GPS was originally developed by the military, they > use wgs84 which is a standard worldwide and is for all practical > purposes identical to the NAD84 (north america datum). > > On Mar 4, 10:01 pm, Larry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ed, Thanks for the link. Larry > > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Life without walls. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_032009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
