Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:03:43 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@freebsd.org> Cc: Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <rv@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook authors.ent doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/contrib chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/staff chapter.sgml www/en/news newsflash.sgml Message-ID: <20000820210343.G254@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000820172258.S58928@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@freebsd.org on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 05:22:58PM %2B0100 References: <200008200355.UAA79612@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000820172258.S58928@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 05:22:58PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Rajesh Vaidheeswarran wrote: > > > Didn't quite know what the numbers in > > ports/astro/xearth/files/freebsd.committers.markers meant. So, left > > that alone :-) > > Latitude and longitude, in degrees. There should > be a website which can tell you this based on your > postcode/zip-code/whatever-is-appropriate-for-your-country, but I don't > know of one except www.streetmap.co.uk which is UK only. > I just drew lines on an Ordnance Survey map from my street to the edge of the map and read off the scale. Computers?, the Internet? who needs 'em :) > You've got to love phk's entry, too. Most people are happy with 1 or 2 > decimal places, not him. :-) > > 55.411822290, 11.336162915, "phk" # Slagelse, Denmark > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > FreeBSD Documentation Project / > -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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