Re: Ada utility for Google Earth, NASA World Wind

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> I've posted at
> home.comcast.net/~tommoran4/scout091.zip
> a zip file with readme.txt, Zoo.spc, and Scout.exe
> I'll add the Ada source code after a bit of cleanup.
> 
> Scout aids finding locations and paths with Google Earth or NASA World
> Wind by interconverting latitude & longitude decimal or degrees, minutes,
> seconds, State Plane Coordinates, Metes and Bounds (only straight lines
> for now).  Given a list of points in any of those forms, it will create
> the Google Earth or World Wind path files to draw a path from point to
> point.  It also can read Google Earth lat/lon format and convert to World
> Wind format, or vice versa.  The current version is 0.91 and I'm adding to
> it (and will post that code).  Suggestions welcomed.
> tommoran4@comcast.net

Enhancement request!!   :-)

First off, thanks for a fine program, for mapping and flyover geeks like 
me this is a big help.

Now, since of course there's no widespread standardization amongst 
consumer-oriented lat/long coordinate representations, Garmin's 
MapSource uses yet a different format.

Here's an example of a trackpoint line from an exported log (this is a 
single line, certain to have line wrapped in this posting):

Trackpoint	N34 52.676 W86 23.335	10/20/2004 9:07:00 AM			363 ft 
00:00:08	30.9 mph	46� true

It's trivial to cut this down to just the lat/long with an editor and 
end up with:

N34 52.676 W86 23.335

and I'd be happy if Scout would simply accept that as input.

If you'd like a full Log Export report from one of my geocaching trips 
(www.geocaching.com) for testing, which includes multiple tracks and 
vaious other device configuration information, let me know and I'll send 
it via email.

Thanks again!

-- Marc A. Criley
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