[OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Fri Feb 24 08:51:42 GMT 2012


On 24/02/12 08:42, phil at trigpoint.me.uk wrote:

> London distances are, I believe, measured from Marble Arch.

I always understood it to be Charing Cross and wikipedia seems to agree:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_cross#Official_use_as_central_point

That is the only one that I know in the UK though, and I suspect there 
is no fixed rule for working it out.

Tom

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