-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        RE: Question of possibility of a note in map cataloging to
show source of coordinates
Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:34:17 -0800 (PST)
From:   Mary Lynette Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
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To:     Pat Horn Fell <[log in to unmask]>
CC:     'Moorhouse, Violet' <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask],
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if i am remembering correctly,
software dealing with the
coordinates fields in 034
should be "told" that when
|d and|e are the same,
and |e and |f are the
same, then it's
center-point coordinates.
But .. as you note there's
nothing in 245|c to tell
persons that.

Mary
> I solved my original problem by repeating the latitude and longitude in
> 034
> $e and $g. Connexion was fine with that. This solution was offered by my
> map
> cataloging maven (who is also my boss, so it must be the locally correct
> way-to-go).
>
> The coordinates I'm using are from a gazetteer of California place names.
> A
> note citing the gazetteer might be useful but more so would be some way of
> indicating that these are central, not bounding coordinates.
>
> Thanks for your thoughtful responses.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pat Fell
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moorhouse, Violet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:46 AM
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> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Question of possibility of a note in map cataloging to show
> source
> of coordinates
>
>
>
>     Dear Pat Fell and Mary:
>
> Would  Connection (Web) allow us to use the fact that for large maps which
> it is
> not  possible  to establish all four sets of coordinates by comparison
> with
> a map
> that  includes all these coordinates; we can record the latitude and
> longitude as given
> in a gazetteer.  For example: the coordinates for the Bugaboo Glacier,
> British
> Columbia are:  (W 116 45 /N 50 40 ).
>
> I found this in  Cartographic materials, 2nd ed.  p. 3-15,   3D1(7).
>
> It could fit in with Mary's  suggestion of showing the source of
> coordinates by a note of
> the central ones drawn  from a gazetteer.  Although most of the time, this
> type of use has
> been understood and not covered by a note.  We (GPO) have used this
> central
> coordinates
> method not only for  a large area such as a glacier, but also to show the
> very specific
> spot of a small area.
>
> Mary is right, this is an interesting question.
>
> Vi Moorhouse, a GPO map cataloger.
>
>
>
>


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