GPS Coordinates
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ericgoodwin
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Hi. We're working on a new version of Islandclimbing.com which utilizes a lot of geolocating. For this to work well though we need GPS coordinates for as many climbing areas on the island as possible. So, if you know the coordinates of any area, please let us know. We'd love to go and get the coordinates ourselves but it would take quite sometime to travel all over the Island to get them all. Thanks! |
| john 89 posts | sounds good. what map datum and coordinates (UTM?)are you looking for? it wont really matter but a few hundred meters could screw people up. Are you looking for coordinates for every specific crag or just general. GPS's are crap in dense forest like comox lake so they don't work very well. I imagine other places will have poor results too. but I can send you the numbers |
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ericgoodwin
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I was thinking trail head and main crag. I think the data will be used more to find out how far an area is away from you rather than using it to find an exact crag with a gps. I'm looking for Longitude and Latitude data. (ex. Mt. Wells: 48.437999, -123.561645) Thanks! |
| john 89 posts | Comox lake doesn't really have a trail head but a main parking area kinda. it does not have a main crag either. Using lat and long is quite strange. Most land navigation in Canada uses UTM. I've seen many books ( Phil's Island Alpine, Joe J's Rockies Ice, Hiking trails to name a few) that use UTM but never a guide that would use the old Lat-long coordinates. All NTS (the normal 1:50 000 scale maps) are set for UTM each, grid squares equals 1 km. So a person can use utm much easier and faster especially if he/she does not have a GPS but rather has just a map. Try plotting lat- long coordinates quickly on a map. totally lame compared to UTM. You don't need a gps to find coordinates, just use a map. I'll send you my coordinates using UTM. If you want to convert them into the archaic lat-long , go ahead. john |
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ericgoodwin
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Cool. I'll display the UTM, but I need the long, lat for the plotting that I am doing using google maps. I can convert that myself though. Thanks John. |
