Re: DW-Map

[Mirjam Lindberg <mirjam.lindberg@lundinova.se>]

Hi!
It looks just right on the dw-map. I'm in Lund, a small town in southern 
Sweden. According to the Getty-page the numbers you have calculated seem 
about right. Hmm. I got my coordinates of my company's webpage, now I 
feel compelled to check why they are weird?! These are the Getty 
coordinates:

Lat: 55 42 00 N  degrees minutes       Lat: 55.7000  decimal degrees
Long: 013 10 00 E  degrees minutes       Long: 13.1667  decimal degrees

http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=Lund&place=&nation=Sweden&english=Y&subjectid=7009837

Anyway, the position on the map looks correct as it is. Thank you and 
sorry for the confusion!

/Mirjam

Miriam Ruiz wrote:

>
> Mirjam, I'm a bit confused by the numbers in your coordinates:
> N 55 42 074
> E 13 12 121
>
> I supposed it's degrees minutes seconds, but there's a 121 and 74 
which are
> higher than 60, so I'm a bit confused about it. According to your email
> address you might be from Sweden, but according to the graphical 
position that
> the map shows with the decimal degrees I've extracted from them (
> http://156.35.156.136/dw-map/dw-map-big.png ), it seems more like 
southern
> Finland. Is that right?
>
> I've used the following numbers:
>  55 + 42/60 + 74/3600 = 55.721
>  13 + 12/60 + 121/3600 = 13.234
>
> Is it OK, is it your mistake or is it mine?
>
> You can try to find your coordinates at:
> http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
>
> Greetings :)
> Miry