Longitude

[Ted Samsel]

Murthy sez:
> 
> A metric unit is not needed unless you want to measure latitude and
> longitude in metric using gradians, radians or some such units (which is
> not a popular practice), 

I beg to differ.... UNIVERSAL TRANSVERSE MERCATOR uses meters as the
base..... it's quite popular amongst us cartographers.
And it lends its self well to GPS systems...

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net 
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