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Re: Sextant Positions versus Map Datums?
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2002 Jan 18, 1:11 AM
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2002 Jan 18, 1:11 AM
Craig-Nothing is wrong, it is only deceptively imprecise. The single tick character which you read as < > is in more common use the character read as < >. I forgot that in the context of this list the single tick could be read different ways. The statement is <<100 feet>> not 100 minutes, and it is neither latitude nor longitude but rather the diagonal measurement based on the offset of both latitude and longitude, ignoring any elevation offset.
