On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:43:01PM +0000, Daniel Smith wrote:
On 18 Jan 2006, at 14:29, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
Can those running a guide let me know (on or
off-list as preferred)
what
their guide settings are for:
geo_handler
ellipsoid
as I'm trying to judge how best to integrate/release some of the
Google
maps stuff that was merged last month.
Looks like Southampton uses:
geo_handler = 1
ellipsoid it doesn't have
I take it that these setting are why the google maps stuff is off by
a whole bunch of meters?
That depends on how you're entering your data, I'd assume. If you've
used OS X/Y coords, then yeah, it's probably related. If users entered
lat/long directly or from some service that spit them out as WGS-84,
that wouldn't be the case.
--
Christopher Schmidt
Open Guide to Boston