[OSM-talk] Nwecastle data

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Mon Nov 27 13:11:35 GMT 2006


* @ 27/11/06 11:30:35 AM Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk wrote:
> 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 what I used to convert it, and it didn't do the right thing
automatically.

A new fixed version is near to being inserted thanks to help from
gagravarr

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/




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