Hi John and everybody I can give some information about the coordinates of the cities included in my program Shadows. I took the coordinate from the "Grand Atlas de geographie de l'Encyclopedie Universalis" published in France. In the copyright notice they say that it is originally a book from Rand McNally & Company.
The coordinates are given for the approximate center of the town. In some cases, they give the coordinate for another place near the town (i.e. the Niagara falls: 43*15'N 79*04'W and Niagara Falls city: 43*05'N 79*03'W) but I included only the coordinates for the town. It can't be absolutely accurate, and may be I included also some typing errors in editing the coordinates for the 750 cities by hand, reading the book!! For Tucson, they only give 32*13'N 110*55'W. François Blateyron EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://web.fc-net.fr/frb/sundials/ (cadrans solaires / sundials) -----Message d'origine----- De : John Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : [email protected] <[email protected]> Date : dimanche 22 août 1999 21:57 Objet : excuse me Fer >p.s. > >I wrote to Fer pleading forgiveness for saying that his program contained a >list of cities with their coordinates. I was confused and should have said >that this program is from the "Shadows" program by Francois Blateyron . But >I'm still interested in knowing to which exact part of a particular city >these coordinates apply and how these coordinates were selected. I guess >I'll have to check out the mapblaster website to find out, now that I've >made the creators of both these wonderful programs mad at me! > >John Carmichael > > >
