Your "maybe" is probably a "probably". No can do good longitude before you invent a portable time piece.
Latitude was the more accurate until they were able to make a chronometer that went "tick-tock" instead of "tock-tick". However, my chronic failure to differentiate between the two recently resulted in my shipping over a million records with the X and Y reversed Reminded me of the story about the old Sea Captain who was seen by his First Mate to open a locked drawer each morning, remove and study a small piece of paper, return it and lock the drawer. When the Captain died during a sea voyage, one of the first things the Mate did was take the Captain's key and open the drawer. The paper read, "Port is Left. Starboard is Right". ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 8:16 PM Subject: RE: MI-L: Settle a "Discussion" > > Actually, being half-serious for a moment, this is a bit of a hobbyhorse of > mine. I am firmly on the side of 'Long/Lat' because this matches the > orientation of the even more firmly established conventions 'easting/northing' > and 'x/y', even though 'long and lat' still sounds strange in comparison to 'lat > and long'. I'd be interested in speculation on how the latter spoken convention > came about...maybe because historically latitude was more easily and precisely > determined than longitude? > > Cheers, > > Mark > > Dr Mark Duffett > Northern Territory Geological Survey > PO Box 2655 > Alice Springs NT 0871 > Telephone (08) 8951 5393 > Fax (08) 8952 7762 > > > > "Landis, Bill @Tempe" > <BLandis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent by: cc: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI-L: Settle a "Discussion" > onsmag.com > > > 19/01/02 00:34 > Please respond to "Landis, > Bill @Tempe" > > > > > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > > This brings up another quandary... > > Lon/Lat > or > Lat/Lon > > So many standards already exist like peanut butter and jelly, Batman and > Robin, Lewis and Clark (sorry for the American slant to the list). Why > should we mappers be so confused? The horror...the humanity of it all... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lyn Pawlowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 6:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MI-L: Settle a "Discussion" > > We are having a heated discussion on the proper order > for of the MapInfo format to put into printed > materials. Is it: > > MIF/MID > or > MID/MIF > > Or doesn't it matter? > > > > > > ===== > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. > > _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
