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[dsn_klr650] canadian gps waypoints
Posted: Tue May 02, 2000 4:00 pm
by Steve Anderson
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Does anyone know where I can obtain GPS waypoints for Canada? I just want a
list of Lat/Lon for various cities and towns in Yukon and Northern
Territory.
Regards,
-svt-
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I have an excel spreadsheet with cities of the world that I got off the
internet a few years ago, and couldn't tell you where I got it. It contains
the following:
locations name
location 4 digit identifier - unique within country (state if in USA)
state code
country name
country code
airport 3 digit identifier if available
ICAO name if available
latitude
longitude
For over 13,000 cities in the world. It is large; almost 3MB unzipped, a
little under 1MB zipped. I will be happy to send it (zipped of course) to
anyone that emails a request for it to me.
Steve A.
standerson@...
[dsn_klr650] canadian gps waypoints
Posted: Tue May 02, 2000 4:07 pm
by Steve Anderson
It's 13,000 locations, not 13,000 cities. It sometimes has several
waypoints for a city. Usually has one for every airport, I think I may have
gotten this from an aviation related site.
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Does anyone know where I can obtain GPS waypoints for Canada? I just want a
list of Lat/Lon for various cities and towns in Yukon and Northern
Territory.
Regards,
-svt-
======
I have an excel spreadsheet with cities of the world that I got off the
internet a few years ago, and couldn't tell you where I got it. It contains
the following:
locations name
location 4 digit identifier - unique within country (state if in USA)
state code
country name
country code
airport 3 digit identifier if available
ICAO name if available
latitude
longitude
For over 13,000 cities in the world. It is large; almost 3MB unzipped, a
little under 1MB zipped. I will be happy to send it (zipped of course) to
anyone that emails a request for it to me.
Steve A.
standerson@...
nklr magnetic deviation
Posted: Tue May 02, 2000 11:17 pm
by bmgecko
No less an authority on survival skills than Mors Kochanski says that even
being within one meter of a knife, three meters of an axe, or twenty meters
of a vehicle might be enough to cause deviation that can get you in a pickle
when you really need a good compass reading.
He goes so far as to warn that photographic light meters strong magnets
might well seriously influence a compass reading.
Chris Astier