[OSM-dev] Fw: [Talk-GB] UK dev day - venue confirmed
Nick Whitelegg
Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Wed Apr 25 18:58:45 BST 2007
Steve - meant to send this to the list but damned mail client wasn't
having it..... :-(
>what're the coordinates in real money? (and why does infofreeway use
>those numbers?)
I'd guess because they're the raw Mercator coordinates as stored in the
postgis database.
BTW code to convert between Mercator coords and OSGB (based on Mapnik
code, IIRC) available at:
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/other/freemap/javascript/converter.js
(javascript)
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/other/freemap/common/latlong.php
(php)
Nick
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