[Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

[Frank Steggink]

Richard Weait wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Frank Steggink<steggink at steggink.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Because it is not obvious to everyone what the extent of the NTS sheets
>> is, I've created a little service which converts them to lat/lon
>> coordinates. It is also possible to show them directly as a box in
>> OpenStreetMap. I'm not sure if a similar service exists (probably NRCan
>> has one), but this might also be useful for the Geobase import.
>>     
>
> Very nice Frank,
>
> Thank you for this.  Are you considering something like this for the extents?
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.875&lon=-71.25&zoom=10&layers=B000FTFT&minlon=-71.5&minlat=46.75&maxlon=-71&maxlat=47&box=yes
>
>   
Richard,

What do you mean exactly? Combining the marker or the box? Or linking to 
the OSM box from this page, 
<http://www.steggink.org/geo/nts_area/021L14>? I was at least 
considering the latter (also for the other links, like KML and Google 
Map), but not tonight anymore :)

Frank