On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:24:18AM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:

> Okay, here's my info for the record, based on my *suggested* fields:
> 20030804, 4, -95.48117 29.71726, Richard Rauch, rkr@olib.org
> 
> Coords are as xglobe (NOT xworld, sorry) expects them

What is the datum for those coordinates ?

Latitude and longitude are useless without a datum,
since they are *calculated* and not read. For example,
your coordinates in a GPS system would use the WGS84
(world geodetic system survey of 1984) but if you are
using another datum (like NAD for North-America or
ED50 for Europe) those coordinates will be very different.

The longitude/latitude are calculated from the
datum, so specifying the datum for those is
rather important.

(you can use google to learn more about
what a datum is, and why latitude/longitude
without datum is useless and carries no meaning
per se)

-- 
Gilbert Fernandes