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Subject:        Map coordinates tool
Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:21:31 -0400
From:   Allison Rich <[log in to unmask]>
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Organization:   John Carter Brown Library
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Hello all at Maps-L:

You have all been such a giant help to me with my map cataloguing
questions, I wanted to share something with you in case
you did not know about it. Petr Priedal in Switzerland and his company
Klokan Technologies (www.klokantech.com) have develvoped a map coordinates
too to make easy the "translation" of non Greenwich coordinates in old
and rare maps.

You activate the shift key and drag out the area to your geographic
location covered by the map and the grid will give you the #d, #e, #f,
and #g delimeters in the 034 field
and the coordinates in the 255 field (in degrees, minutes and seconds).

We have found it most useful. David Rumsey, who told us about this map
coordinates tool, said that it was okay to share it with the listserv.

The link is here:

http://boundingbox.klokantech.com/

Again thank you for all of your collective help, past and future, and I
hope that I have given back a little something and it will prove helpful
to some of you.

Best,
~Allison Rich


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Allison Rich
Rare Books Cataloguer
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
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