[MLB-WIRELESS] Node map Coords

[James Healy]

Thanks for the advice Damien..

Although it’s hard to notice on the node map, (cos of the character
limit thingy) there seems to be 2 places where nodes generally end up if
someone enters in their location in degrees minutes seconds. Both are
north of the city, and one of them is kinglake :-P

I went through and fixed up the ones that looked wrong about 3 weeks
ago, but considering the explosion of nodes recently, there's probably a
whole lot more now :-P

The problem is, if someone enters there their location as
degress.minutes (as opposed to the decimal notation), there's no way
(that I know of anyway) to validate it (other than manually checking if
it's in the rough spot as the suburb it claims to be in). Drew would
welcome any suggestions I'm sure :-P

James


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Damien Whyte
Sent: Sunday, 2 June 2002 8:28 PM
To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Node map Coords

G'day all,
 
  I recently stumbled across the Melbourne Wireless web page and decided
to enter in my own location just to see how depressingly far everyone
else was away from Kinglake. :)
 
One thing I have noticed is that there seems to be quite a lot of nodes
closer to me than expected - I think this is because their coordinates
have been entered in Degrees Minute Seconds rather than decimal degrees.
 
So while it was rather exciting to have someone setting up a node a mere
10 km away from me, I guess the data may need to be cleaned up a little
...
 
Anyway guys best of luck - I guess I'll just have to wait until Telstra
roll out a similar service. Bwah hah hah.
 
 
Best regards,
Damien.
 
 


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