[ILUG-Social] Re: Official Dublin BUS GPS info

[Joe Desbonnet]

There are a few libraries out there that will do conversions. I think
you'll find one on Chris O'Byrne's site:

http://www.chris.obyrne.com/



On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:16:08PM +0100, Paul Mc Auley wrote:
> [argh Upside down posting!]
> 
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:23:13 +0100
> "Brendan J. Farrell" <brendan.farrell at tellabs.com> wrote:
> 
> | Paul Mc Auley wrote:
> 
> | > While we're at it, does anybody know of a straightforward reference on
> | > how to convert lat/long into Irish grid reference?
> 
> | The Irish grid is an option on most GPS receivers, it would be madness for Dublin
> | Bus not to use it, but they have never demonstrated an aversion to madness !!!
> 
> This may be true, but the NMEA protocol pushes out Lat/Long. Does anybody 
> have a straightforward reference on how to convert one to the other? I'd 
> imagine that just taking two reference points is going to introduce a small 
> but measurable error (curvature of the earth and all that...)
> 	Paul
> 
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