On Apr 23, 2:29 pm, mapcoder817 <[email protected]> wrote:

> The X/Y coordinates you are dealing with are "State Plane
> Coordinates."  According to the information you have provided, you're

The fact that these are not in a normal format, doesn't surprise me.
They don't like having to give this data up, but FL has very strong
open access rules, and I am willing to go after this data one water
utility, and county at time if I have too.

> download for SPCS 83, which may do batch, but I've never used this

Thanks, but thats out as I don't have the time or staff to crunch
7000+ points from 1 of 67 counties.

> 2) Use CorpsConhttp://crunch.tec.army.mil/software/corpscon/corpscon.html

This looks promising, but unfortunately its win based and we are not a
win shop. We are strictly Linux.

> 3) See if any of the ESRI products (i.e. ARCGIS) in your office can do

We don't use anything from ESRI due to the cost and its win based as
well.

> Dealing with state plane coordinates is VERY tricky. Even experienced
> to 15 ft errors.

If I am within +- 15 ft. then I am good.

> 2) *ALWAYS* stick a couple of converted points into google maps or

Thats exactly what I am trying to do with a sample county,
unfortunately the sources are not being very co-operative.

Thanks for the input

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