[ On Tuesday, August 5, 2003 at 00:06:18 (-0500), Richard Rauch wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Silly way to waste bits.
>
> I thought he meant that a "datum" was the reference point for a "zone",
> where offsets are measured in meters north/south and east/west.  So when he
> insisted that longitude/latitude was useless without knowing the "datum",
> I thought that he meant this reference point...

Yeah, he was missing a very key word in the phrase "Geodetic Datum"

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