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Two Quick Questions

1. Is there a way of hiding the towns and cities names from a map in Data View? Even in the smallest font, these names are obscuring the pushpins.

2. Is there a way to change the lat/long within the location sensor from decimal to conventional (dd:mm:ss) format?

Thanks once again in advance

Gus

Gus

I have been unable, so far, to resolve this problem, but I have found a conversion formula that could be used if a series of conventional lats + longs were to be input to a table/spreadsheet, the formulae could be used to convert these to digital that could then be transferred to Mappoint.

For example, a Pushpin 53d15m00s North 001d30m00e could be input to a table or database, but then converted to 53.250000N001.5000E. My guess is that Mappoint could be made to look at the digital version of the data in a database and use this as the basis for plotting the points of interest.

Gus

Further to my last, look here for details of the conversion formulae

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html

Gilles articles from 4/4/02 and 8/3/01 should be helpful:
http://www.mp2kmag.com/author.asp?id=6

Eric

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