Corrections to latitudes/longitudes in zone.tab

Oscar van Vlijmen ovv at hetnet.nl
Wed Nov 1 12:13:20 UTC 2006


> From: walter harms
> You can use google-maps. it is hardly a perfect reference but at least
> you can see if the coordinates match the city.

> Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote:
>> Note that the zone.tab value from Shanks is not a typo: rather it is the
>> exact latitude and longitude that is found in
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podgorica but in decimal format, rather than
>> minutes-seconds etc.

Another good reference is the GeoNames server.
<http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp>
It produces for Podgorica (Titograd):
42° 26' 28" N    019° 15' 49" E



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