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From: Antoine Couëtte
Date: 2010 Jan 13, 11:43 -0800
George, you just wrote :
" I am pleased to report that by the time of the 1990 edition of that road
map, Michelin had decided to enter at least the 19th century, by adopting
degrees rather than grads and referring them to Greenwich rather than
Paris. "
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So, the french land cartographers eventually made it into degrees and Greenwich longitudes (at least for the Michelin maps) !
... Big sigh of relief !! Champagne !!!
from
Antoine M. "Kermit" Cou�tte
PS : For the irreductible French - if any left on Earth - if you keep using the Paris Longitude reference System, the Greenwich Longitude is 002�20'13.82" west of Paris (+9m20.921s), just in case you keep pretending ignorance on that most important matter !!! :-)
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