Exporting Places - Accuracy of Latitude and Longitude

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csbrown99
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Exporting Places - Accuracy of Latitude and Longitude

Post by csbrown99 » Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:00 pm

Is there a way to get iFamily to export location data with a higher level of precision? At present latitude and longitude data are exported rounded to the nearest degree. I&#39d like to be more precise and I know from looking at the Gedcom data that the program captures data to the nearest second. I want to build some custom maps in Google Maps and since each degree of circumference represent about 110KM - if I did my math right - the difference can be significant.

Right now I&#39m looking at dusting off my rusty C programing skills to write a program to extract the accurate data from the Gedcom file but I&#39d rather be able to export a CSV file directly from iFamily with more accurate data.

Any chance of a fix here?
Charlie

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Post by Warwick Wilson » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:30 pm

Hi Charlie,

iFamily stores the geocoded coordinates to six decimals so I should be able to get you an accuracy down to 10meters or so, including the span information.

Here is a typical geocoded string from iFamily:

maps.google.com/maphp?hl=en&q=Darwin,+NT&ie=UTF8&ll=-12.454596,130.833714&spn=0.001891,0.005203&t=h&z=18

I will endeavour to code up a kml for you, you should then be able to interrogate and alter it with an xml parser.

Warwick.

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Post by csbrown99 » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:06 pm

Great! I look forward to it. Thanks very much.
Charlie

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