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Re: La Canoa datum


Subject: Re: La Canoa datum
From: Hal Mueller (hal@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 13:22:17 EDT


At 12:32 AM -0700 9/26/01, Paul Hirose wrote:
>An appendix in my Magellan ProMARK GPS receiver manual lists a slew of
>datums all over the world. There's no Provisional South American
>*1966* there, but there is a *1956* using the International ellipsiod.
>Typo?

The NIMA web site's listing of datums has 1956. That doesn't
absolutely prove which one is the typo, though, since Magellan might
have used NIMA as a source.

H





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