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unruh Tourist Reged: 03/16/08 Posts: 2 Re: World Geodetic System       03/16/08 11:05 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   "Try as they might, the best fit they could get at Greenwich put the WGS84 meridian to the east of Airy by a tad under 102.5 meters. " This is of course nonsense, since you can define 0 longitude to be on the Airy Prime meridian, no matter how you fit the earth. Ie, if there is a misfit, they must have used other criteria to define 0. What were those other criteria? Post Extras

Entire topic Subject Posted by Posted on Greenwich Longitude off by 106m in Keyhole? LionelB 06/06/05 03:40 PM Re: Greenwich Longitude off by 106m in Keyhole? unruh   03/26/08 03:01 AM Re: Greenwich Longitude off by 106m in Keyhole? Bob_of_Barham   07/17/08 01:58 PM Re: Greenwich Longitude off by 106m in Keyhole? Felippo   11/07/07 03:45 AM Re: bugginess near 0 longitude ChadNetzer   07/29/05 08:07 PM Re: bugginess near 0 longitude fgrose   08/21/05 05:31 PM World Geodetic System seer   06/06/05 04:04 PM Re: World Geodetic System unruh   03/16/08 11:05 AM Re: World Geodetic System simon_a   08/04/07 03:20 PM We won't give an INCH! Rambler24   09/17/07 05:08 AM Prime Meridian is misnamed PriceCollins   02/20/06 12:57 AM

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