+Firehouse16 Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 W33°33.583 and w33°85943? Thanks, Firehouse16 & Code3 "Dave, Teresa & the 2 kids" Quote Link to comment
+ScottJ Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 Phonetically? Depends ... either: "West thirty-three degrees, thirty-three point five eight three minutes longitude" in casual conversation ought to suffice for the first one. The second one isn't really valid -- it ought to have a decimal point somewhere, as in W33.85943°, which would be "West thirty three point eight five nine® four three degrees longitude". -- Scott Johnson (ScottJ) Quote Link to comment
+Firehouse16 Posted October 17, 2003 Author Share Posted October 17, 2003 See I was thinking it was like 33 degrees, 33 minutes, 583 feet, hence the "'" symbol. The second coord is the way I see them posted frequently, especially at mapquest.com Firehouse16 & Code3 "Dave, Teresa & the 2 kids" Quote Link to comment
dsandbro Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 "Over thar a fur piece." =========================================================== "The time has come" the Walrus said "to speak of many things; of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and Kings". Quote Link to comment
+nincehelser Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 Some people might say "dot" instead of "point". George Quote Link to comment
Aksor+Raskol Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 In some formats, Lat/Lon is described as 33 degrees, 56' (minutes), 24" (seconds) which 1): is cumbersome because there is no "degree" symbol on keyboards, and 2): seconds just aren't accurate enough for GPS guided smart bombs and geocaching. So clever Engineers made use of 3 or 4 other ways of describing Lat/Lon such as UTM, NAD27, WGS84 and WD-40. So, WGS84 is formated 33 degrees 56.240 which is to say thirty three degrees, fifty six point two four zero minutes or 56 and two hundred fourty thousandths minutes. Whatever format Mapquest uses just eliminates the minutes and carries the degree out to 4 decimal places or ten-thousandths of degrees. Simple, yes Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Aksor+Raskol:In some formats, Lat/Lon is described as 33 degrees, 56' (minutes), 24" (seconds) which 1): is cumbersome because there is no "degree" symbol on keyboards, and 2): seconds just aren't accurate enough for GPS guided smart bombs and geocaching. So clever Engineers made use of 3 or 4 other ways of describing Lat/Lon such as UTM, NAD27, WGS84 and WD-40. So, WGS84 is formated 33 degrees 56.240 which is to say thirty three degrees, fifty six point two four zero minutes or 56 and two hundred fourty thousandths minutes. Whatever format Mapquest uses just eliminates the minutes and carries the degree out to 4 decimal places or ten-thousandths of degrees. Simple, yes Umm...sorry, but WGS84 does not require any specific format for the coordinates. It is a datum, not a format. (I'm hoping the WD-40 humor was intended for all of the post) ______________________ Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand. - Homer Simpson ChiTown Cachers * Keenpeople.com Stats Quote Link to comment
+EScout Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 Thirty three degrees, thirty three point five eight three minutes North latitude. (around here in calif, when you see 33, it is latitude, not W longitude) Please use point or decimal not dot. The second should be thirty three point eight five nine four three degrees north latitude. (leave out the degree symbol and use a decimial point: 33.85943) Quote Link to comment
+Firehouse16 Posted October 17, 2003 Author Share Posted October 17, 2003 Thanks! Firehouse16 & Code3 "Dave, Teresa & the 2 kids" Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 quote: Please use point or decimal not dot. People over 40 say point or decimal. Those under 30 say dot. Those in between are stil trying to fiugure out whether they're hippies, yuppies or part of the X generation! Alan Quote Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Alan2: People over 40 say point or decimal. Those under 30 say dot. Those in between are stil trying to fiugure out whether they're hippies, yuppies or part of the X generation! It's not a matter of age, it's a matter of usage. If it's indicating a decimal fraction, it's "point". If it's being used as a delimiter, such as in an IP address, it's "dot". "Don't mess with a geocacher. We know all the best places to hide a body." Quote Link to comment
Vacman Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 Personally, I prefer to just say "Let me grab some paper, you have a pen I can borrow to write this down?" -------------------------------------------------- When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. Quote Link to comment
+Firehouse16 Posted October 18, 2003 Author Share Posted October 18, 2003 Nice, but I don't think that'll work when I'm trying to give a helicopter or air tanker coordinates on a fire! Firehouse16 & Code3 "Dave, Teresa & the 2 kids" Quote Link to comment
+Mark 42 Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 Look for the smoke, and you'll know the ccordinates. I had a friend as about negative longitudes... (Just to stir some cusriosity & controversy) "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it" Quote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Prime Suspect: quote:Originally posted by Alan2: People over 40 say point or decimal. Those under 30 say dot. Those in between are stil trying to fiugure out whether they're hippies, yuppies or part of the X generation! It's not a matter of age, it's a matter of usage. If it's indicating a decimal fraction, it's "point". If it's being used as a delimiter, such as in an IP address, it's "dot". http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/3608_2800.gif _"Don't mess with a geocacher. We know all the best places to hide a body."_ No, it not either point or dot, I have the perfect & ending answer to the debate...all women know that it is a 'PERIOD'. ~Shirley~ of 2oldfarts ******************************************************* It's hard to remember that your primary objective is to drain the swamp, when you're up to your a$$ in alligators. Quote Link to comment
mikeh420 Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 you can "type" a ° symbol by holding down the ALT key while typing 0176 on the number pad, then let up the ALT key and the ° appears. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted October 24, 2003 Share Posted October 24, 2003 When I talk coords it's abbreviated since we know exactly what datum we are using and that we are using decimal minutes with three decimals. North, thirty three, thirty three, five eighty three. Sometimes we skip the North because the order the coordinates are given in, is always the same. This short cut works well in caching. If a stranger was giving me coordinates I'd ask them every detail that gets cut out because I don't know what they could be using and need to verify. Quote Link to comment
+Volvo Man Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 The correct Phonetic for . is always DECIMAL dot and point are not clear enough for phonetic. the idea being that should there be radio interference or distortion, the phonetics should be unmistakable even if only half the word comes through. Also, the W should be Whisky, not West for the same Reason, ie " confirm co-ordinates, Whiskey 152" etc. Just a Trivia note, the Civilian Phonetic for Z is Zebra, The Military is Zulu. Also, for some unknown reason the US police have their very own Phoenetic alphabet (Adam, Baker etc) when everyone else uses the international (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc.) "This Is GC.com If you don't like it, speak up, others may thank you for it." Quote Link to comment
+Volvo Man Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Alan2: quote: Please use point or decimal not dot. People over 40 say point or decimal. Those under 30 say dot. Those in between are stil trying to fiugure out whether they're hippies, yuppies or part of the X generation! Alan I really hope that Airline pilots have managed to co-ordinate (groan) their generation with the air trafic controllers "This Is GC.com If you don't like it, speak up, others may thank you for it." Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 quote:Originally posted by DaJagman:The correct Phonetic for . is always DECIMAL dot and point are not clear enough for phonetic. the idea being that should there be radio interference or distortion, the phonetics should be unmistakable even if only half the word comes through. Also, the W should be Whisky, not West for the same Reason, ie " confirm co-ordinates, Whiskey 152" etc. Just a Trivia note, the Civilian Phonetic for Z is Zebra, The Military is Zulu. Also, for some unknown reason the US police have their very own Phoenetic alphabet (Adam, Baker etc) when everyone else uses the international (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc.) "This Is GC.com If you don't like it, speak up, others may thank you for it." As I recall my days in the USAF, we used Alpha, Bravo Coco for ABC while the Army used Able Baker Charlie so even in the military there were differences. Does anyone have a current knowledge of what they use for letters?? Alan Quote Link to comment
+EScout Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 I agree that the best way to speak numbers/coordiates is to speak each number indivdually and use "decimal". And for letters, please use the International Telecommunications Union Phonetics. (Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo.....) This way you will be understood clearly in the most consise way, and with people from other countries, speaking other languages. Quote Link to comment
+PeachyPA Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 When I worked for the USINS a lifetime ago, we used the International Phonetics (alpha, bravo, charlie....). I, too, have wondered how to say these co-ordinates. Thanks for the clarification! PeachyPA Quilter, Cacher, Cubmaster Quote Link to comment
+Volvo Man Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Alan2: As I recall my days in the USAF, we used Alpha, Bravo Coco for ABC while the Army used Able Baker Charlie so even in the military there were differences. Does anyone have a current knowledge of what they use for letters?? Alan The ITU standard is also the NATO standard (with the substitution of Zulu) and is used by All NATO forces, along with all Airtrafic Controllers, Coastguards, NASA etc. Whilst the US military may have their own systems (like the emergency services), these are not used on NATO ops, or anytime they get in the sky or water. Just as when using distance with international context, metres and kilometres are used. Quote Link to comment
The Cuthberts Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 It makes me laugh sometimes when doing IT support calls. S is always for 'Sugar' but some of the others that have crept out..... T - Tommy V - Viagra A - Apple E - Elephant F - Freddie Is this part of the 'official civvie' alphabet ? Naturally, being ex-military, I correct these blatant heathens Andy Quote Link to comment
martmann Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 Here is the NATO phonetic alphabet. A - Alpha B - Bravo C - Charlie D - Delta E - Echo F - Foxtrot G - Golf H - Hotel I - India J - Juliet K - Kilo L - Lima M - Mike N - November O - Oscar P - Papa Q - Quebec R - Romeo S - Sierra T - Tango U - Uniform V - Victor W - Whiskey X - X-ray Y - Yankee Z - Zulu 0 - Zero 1 - Wun (One) 2 - Two 3 - Tree (Three) 4 - Fower (Four) 5 - Five 6 - Six 7 - Seven 8 - Ait (Eight) 9 - Niner (Nine) . - decimal (point) . - (full) stop __________________________________________________________ If trees could scream, would we still cut them down? Well, maybe if they screamed all the time, for no reason. Click here for my Geocaching pictures and Here (newest) Quote Link to comment
+flask Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 uh, to appropriately describe it PHONETICALLY you would need to address the concept of diction and pronunciation, for which you would need something along the lines of the international phonetic alphabet, which exists for the sole purpose of allowing singers, diction coaches and speech therapists to notate pronunciation at-a-glance. i can't speak for other systems, but the IPA contains a character set not available to me on any computer keyboard i have seen. i'm guessing that you just want to translate it into the spoken word. and oh, did i just give away MY background? i am so out of place among all you engineers. quod est, est. Quote Link to comment
+SearchRescueDog Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Firehouse16 & Code3:Nice, but I don't think that'll work when I'm trying to give a helicopter or air tanker coordinates on a fire! Medevac-10 this is command. You should see an engine company with emergency lights burning at your 3 o'clock. Follow them in to the scene. Done that one before Quote Link to comment
+Firehouse16 Posted November 4, 2003 Author Share Posted November 4, 2003 Well that's peachy when I'm at the engine, but when I'm a 1/2 mile away in a river bottom surrounded by 40' bamboo and other obstacles I'm sure my coordinates would help when they fly in to find me and do a "short haul". Firehouse16 & Code3 "Dave, Teresa & the 2 kids" http://webpages.charter.net/engineco16/ Quote Link to comment
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