Lat and Long

[jpchenet]

Does anyone know the Latitude and Longitude of Maison Blanche??

Anyone out there with a decent quality map that might have it on it??

[Lawnmower Man]

Does anyone know the Latitude and Longitude of Maison Blanche??

Anyone out there with a decent quality map that might have it on it??

Well
Latitude:  N47° 56 Min. 30 Sec.
Longitude: E0° 12 Min. 30 Sec.

Should get you close enough.  

[Rhino]

Not 100% up on lat and long, but on my serie blue map it looks 0 degrees 12' and approx 48" est du meridien international ( the bottom one)
47 degrees 55' 16" up the side.
Is this for the NASA beer refuelling rocket to land?

[Rob]

somewhere in that region

[Fran]

It somehow seems appropriate that a "postie" should demonstrate that degree of geographical accuracy!!!

 

p.s. just kidding ya, my own postie's lil knobbly knees brighten up many a morning (well about lunchtime actually)

[jpchenet]

Thnaks everyone. Looking to confirm the elevation required for the satellite dish!  

[Lawnmower Man]

somewhere in that region

No Not even close no air port there.  :-(

There will be differences due to th eDatum in use.  The Standard is WGS84 these days but you map may be bases on some other Datum.

The Airfield is N47565500   E000120600 MB is to the east of that.  The datum for the Airfield is WGS84.  

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[Steve Pyro]

Cojones.  You know as well as I do that a did of twiddling and pointing at that big group of trees on the horizon and Robert is your mother's brother.

It worked for me last year when I set up Robbo's dish.

The dish elevation is almost no different to that in the UK.  It's all spherical trigonometry you know!

[Rob]

It somehow seems appropriate that a "postie" should demonstrate that degree of geographical accuracy!!!

it does make a change, im usually clueless as to where i am!

on a brighter note, i just got my £1074 bonus through, n i only work 5 hours a week . it finally pays to be a postie!!!

Thnaks everyone. Looking to confirm the elevation required for the satellite dish!  

well, if it helps, the elevation stated on the map is 62 metres, and im pretty sure its acurate

[Fran]

A dont forget to allow for that theory that NASA and the americans build in random errors to the satellites and GPS locations so no-one but them knows where they are....i remember hearing that somewhere.......out on a boat.

F

[Rob]

A dont forget to allow for that theory that NASA and the americans build in random errors to the satellites and GPS locations so no-one but them knows where they are....i remember hearing that somewhere.......out on a boat.

F

LOL that doesnt surprise me at all, and would explain why Beemer and Merc drivers are useless at navigating, despite having the 'best GPS around'

[Lawnmower Man]

Thnaks everyone. Looking to confirm the elevation required for the satellite dish!  

well, if it helps, the elevation stated on the map is 62 metres, and im pretty sure its acurate

The Airfield Elevation is 193ft so 62 Mtr is prolly correct.

Just in case you need it The magnetic variation is 2.4West.

[Fran]

dont forget to allow for deviation too!

[Perdu]

dont forget to allow for deviation too!

fran, I didn't realise that you were into deviants.... But no worries it's allowed!

 

bill

[pretzel]

dont forget to allow for deviation too!

fran, I didn't realise that you were into deviants.... But no worries it's allowed!
 

More or less compulsory I would say........