Re: The GPS zero meridian club - a round up

2014-05-13 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Doug: I recently got a used CSI LGBX Pro DGPS Receiver. This is a CSI long wave beacon receiver with an integrated Ashtech 12 channel GPS receiver iwth an antenna that receives both of them. The display option with the most resolution is dddmm. and it seems to be good to less than one

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-05-10 Thread rmallett
On 30/04/2014 17:37, Douglas Bateman wrote: This is a new club consisting, so far, of two members: Frank King and myself. After the successful British Sundial Society conference, the Sunday morning was allocated to tours of the Greenwich Observatory. Quite independently, Frank and I had the

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-05-03 Thread rmallett
On 30/04/2014 19:27, J. Tallman wrote: I wonder how well Google Earth matches up with this in terms of precision? Has anybody ever checked? Best, Jim Tallman www.spectrasundial.com www.artisanindustrials.com jtall...@artisanindustrials.com 513-253-5497 If you search for 51 28 39.8 N 0 00 00

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-05-02 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

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-05-02 Thread rmallett
On 02/05/2014 07:56, Kevin Karney wrote: 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

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-05-02 Thread rmallett
On 02/05/2014 07:56, Kevin Karney wrote: 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

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.

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

2014-04-30 Thread Ian Maddocks
Hi Doug Well there's already a very similar web site confluence.org/ This is for people trying to stand on points of exact degrees intersecting (according to WGS84) I have stood on two such points 54. N 2. W (on a lonely bit of moorland above Skipton, UK.It's very boggy , be

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-04-30 Thread rmallett
On 30/04/2014 17:37, Douglas Bateman wrote: This is a new club consisting, so far, of two members: Frank King and myself. After the successful British Sundial Society conference, the Sunday morning was allocated to tours of the Greenwich Observatory. Quite

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-04-30 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Richard: Prior to GPS each country had their own datum, but if you want GPS to truly be Global then you need a common datum. There were other datums prior to the World Geodetic System of 1984 (WGS84, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGS84#Longitudes_on_WGS_84) but it's the one that's the

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-04-30 Thread rmallett
On 30/04/2014 19:33, Brooke Clarke wrote: Hi Richard: Prior to GPS each country had their own datum, but if you want GPS to truly be Global then you need a common datum. There were other datums prior to the World Geodetic System of 1984 (WGS84,

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-04-30 Thread Patrick Powers
Meridian Club’ are chasers after ephemera. They will need to keep coming back every few years simply to catch up... Patrick From: Ian Maddocks Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 6:14 PM To: Douglas Bateman ; Sundial list Subject: RE: The GPS zero meridian club Hi Doug Well there's already

Re: The GPS zero meridian club

2014-04-30 Thread rmallett
On 30/04/2014 20:19, Patrick Powers wrote: Hi Ian, Exactly so, and it would be interesting to see what dials there were on such a whole number list. But the snag in all this though is that the