[OSM-talk] Nwecastle data

[Nick Whitelegg]

Subject:        Re: [OSM-talk] Nwecastle data

>Hi Calum,

>I think the chances are quite high.  The data was probably recorded in
>OSGB using the Airy ellipoide.  AFAIK accurate transformation from
>OSGB - WGS84 using GDAL (ogr2ogr etc) require a bit of additional
>hacking.  If any one has scripts to help the transformation, they
>would be much appeciated.

>NIck

Have you seen JCoord? (www.jstott.me.uk/jcoord) ? 
It's a library which can convert between WGS84 and OSGB projected lat/lon 
, and lat/lon and grid refs. There are Java, JavaScript and PHP versions. 
I used it for the JOSM NPE plugin and for Freemap-NPE, and it seems to 
work well.

Nick