Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-05-01 Thread Kevin Karney
Shame on you all - abandon this ill conceived club!! The Sun was not involved in the conception of WGS84. You should all be expelled from the Sundial mailing list as heretics Kevin Karney Freedom Cottage, Llandogo, Monmouth, NP25 4TP Phone 01594 539 595. Mobile 07595 024 960 > On 1 May 2014

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-05-01 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
There is an android app called "GPS averaging" that can average many readings in order to get a more realistic value of the position. Thibaud At 10:44 1-5-2014, Frank Evans wrote: Greetings, fellow dialists, Ian Maddocks asks what dials are on whole number lat/long lines. During the BSS tour of

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-05-01 Thread Frank Evans
Greetings, fellow dialists, Ian Maddocks asks what dials are on whole number lat/long lines. During the BSS tour of Austria in 2002 we visited a pillar dial labelled "Nieder osterreich" which claimed to be exactly at 48 deg N, 15 deg. E. It is recorded in " Austria 2002; a sundial safari. /Bull