Re: Garmin launches UK OS maps

Colin MacDonald wrote:

> Ah, Paul, what an interesting and exciting world we would live in if
> we all had your arrogance.

Arrogance? I just looked at the sample map and saw that it was in metres.
I assumed that you were looking at the same map. I didn't notice the map
viewer when I first looked at the page.

> Didn't it occur to you to stop for just a
> second and think that just maybe I could tell the difference between
> feet and metres?

Of course, which is why I thought it was very strange that you said that.

> So, let me re-phrase: it seems strange that _for some areas_ the
> contours are in feet rather than metres. I'll concede that I didn't
> look over the whole map.

> But using the viewer on Garmin's site I can look at Moel Hebog, which
> appears to have a 2460 contour around it. Is that in metres?

Well if you want to be pedantic, actually it is. The 2460ft contour line is
really the 750m contour line, converted to feet for display purposes. The
contour lines are in 10m intervals, with a thicker contour every 50m, just
as on the OS maps (as you'd expect). Set your GPS to feet and it will
display the contours in feet. That's what they've done with their map
viewer.

Paul


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