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Coordinates on the ticket

Post by TT120 » Fri Aug 09, 2013 8:55 pm

Anybody see the coordinates in the lower left of the ticket? Is that the precise location of the golden stake they drove in the center of the event, from which all the streets are laid out?

Lat: 40.788644800000000000
Lon: 119.2030177000000300
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Re: Coordinates on the ticket

Post by Eric » Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:14 pm

TT120 wrote:Anybody see the coordinates in the lower left of the ticket? Is that the precise location of the golden stake they drove in the center of the event, from which all the streets are laid out?

Lat: 40.788644800000000000
Lon: 119.2030177000000300
You have them slightly wrong, it's:
Lat: 40.788644800000000000
Lon: -119.2030177000000300
That minus sign is kind of critical.

And, yes, as far as I know that is the Golden Spike.

You can enter them here to see for yourself, it looks like the center point is slightly up towards the Temple from last year.
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Re: Coordinates on the ticket

Post by TT120 » Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:39 pm

Thanks Eric! That map page is pretty cool. I was trying to figure out how to make Google Earth accept coordinates in that format but your page is much better.
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Post by EspressoDude » Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:31 am

google earth / tools / options ?

yep. put a comma between them in the search box
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