Re: Sextant Positions versus Map Datums?
Subject: Re: Sextant Positions versus Map Datums?
From: Jared Sherman (jared.sherman@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 03:10:56 EST
Craig-
<Something seems to be wrong with the statement below. 100' of longitude>
Nothing is wrong, it is only deceptively imprecise. The single tick character which you read as <<minutes>> is in more common use the character read as <<feet>>. I forgot that in the context of this list the single tick could be read different ways.
The statement is <<100 feet>> not 100 minutes, and it is neither latitude nor longitude but rather the diagonal measurement based on the offset of both latitude and longitude, ignoring any elevation offset.
