From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 20 14:44:31 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001CE37B422; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 14:44:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.255.97.218]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000820200338.JHTW295.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:03:38 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA02263; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:03:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:03:43 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Rajesh Vaidheeswarran , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook authors.ent doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/contrib chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/staff chapter.sgml www/en/news newsflash.sgml Message-ID: <20000820210343.G254@parish> References: <200008200355.UAA79612@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000820172258.S58928@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000820172258.S58928@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@freebsd.org on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 05:22:58PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 05:22:58PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Rajesh Vaidheeswarran wrote: > > > Didn't quite know what the numbers in > > ports/astro/xearth/files/freebsd.committers.markers meant. So, left > > that alone :-) > > Latitude and longitude, in degrees. There should > be a website which can tell you this based on your > postcode/zip-code/whatever-is-appropriate-for-your-country, but I don't > know of one except www.streetmap.co.uk which is UK only. > I just drew lines on an Ordnance Survey map from my street to the edge of the map and read off the scale. Computers?, the Internet? who needs 'em :) > You've got to love phk's entry, too. Most people are happy with 1 or 2 > decimal places, not him. :-) > > 55.411822290, 11.336162915, "phk" # Slagelse, Denmark > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > FreeBSD Documentation Project / > -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message