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Google earth co ordinates to Oziexplorer

Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:02

Ozboc

as the topic suggests , how do i take the co ordinates for google earth and use them in oziexplorer


for example - the co- ords for levis lane petrol station in google is

32°49'0.93"S

151°50'37.79"E

and in oziexplorer


32°49.002's
151°50.607' E

anybody able to help ?

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AnswerID: 269688   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:21

Member - Andrew (QLD) replied:

Ozboc,

The coordinate format you have shown above is incorrect. I assume that the "1" after 32 is to signify a degree symbol.

The top format is DDMMSS.SS (degrees, minutes, decimal seconds) whereas the second format is DDMM.MMM (degrees, decimal minutes).

To change in Ozi goto file==>configuration==>maps, and change the Lat/Long Display to "deg, min, sec".

Hope this helps,

Andrew

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AnswerID: 269704   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:54

swampy66 replied:

Remember, the whole world does not have to be in Degrees,Minutes and whatever.

That might have been handy back in William Dampier's day - but its not all that hard to put your Gps, Ozi, Google Earth, Natmap etc in metres. most maps have had metric grids and co-ords for the last 30 years.

I find it much easier to picture how far 823m is than trying to figure out how far 0.354" are. And at least 823m is always the same length, unlike 0.354" which varies as you travel from Darwin to Tazzie

Good Luck
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FollowupID: 532575   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:00

Member - Matt M (ACT) posted:

Certainly easier to visualise in metres, but 0.354" is the same distance regardless of where you are.
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FollowupID: 532580   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 13:02

swampy66 posted:

Matt,

0.354" lat at Darwin is 11m .354"lat and at Hobart its 8m
1'00" lat at Darwin is 1.85 km and at Hobart its 1.36 km

Longs doesn't vary at all. Only Lats.
This obviously gets much less in Antarctica.

Good Luck - it looks like you'll get more miles to the gallon in the north.
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FollowupID: 532596   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 14:26

Member - Matt M (ACT) posted:

Swampy,

I sit corrected, but I think you have it bass ackwards. The distance between lines of latitude varies very little and only due to the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere (an oblique spheroid) meaning that lines of latutude subtend a smaller arc at the equator than they do at the poles. In any case it is small enough to be insignificant for most applications.

The distance between lines of longitude however does vary more significantly. Unlike lines of latitude, longitudinal lines are not parallel and converge at the poles meaning they subtend a greater arc at the equator and down to zero at the poles.

Cheers,

Matt.
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FollowupID: 532598   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 14:41

swampy66 posted:

Matt,

Your right
Longs are the ones that vary

Cheers
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FollowupID: 532603   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 15:27

Member - Toolman (VIC) posted:

Swampy,
you raise a good point but one difference between using geographic coords (lats & longs ) versus Grids coord ( metres) is that geographic coordintes are unique to one location on earth whereas if you quote grid coordinates you need to also quote the correct Zone, because the same grid coordinates do exist in any one of the 7 zones in Australia and so on.

Toolman
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AnswerID: 269705   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:01

Member - Jay Gee (WA) replied:

I'm not at home right now, so I can't explain how to do it step by step, but Oziezplorer has IMPORT/OUTPUT options that allows one to excahnge files to and from Gooogle earth. Do a search through the Help screen in OziExplorer using Google earth in the search options and it will explain what to do.

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AnswerID: 269729   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 15:14

Bega Photographer replied:

I seem to recall in the ExplorOz blurb, a couple of years back, that Exp0loreOz uses as it's conventioin Latitude and longditude, rather than the map grid. Thought it was a bit strange at the time so have never bothered with ExploreOz coordinates.

Have I got the bull by the tail?

Of course, if you're using a handheld GPS and a paper map, maybe with a rule and a pencil, you need metres.

Regards,
Laurie.
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AnswerID: 269741   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 16:50

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FollowupID: 532635   Submitted: Friday, Nov 02, 2007 at 19:02

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