Re: Lat/Long Grid Scale Forumla

From: Schooner (schooner_at_accesswave.ca)
Date: 09/21/04


Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:32:51 -0300

Yes thank you. I managed to track that down as well and it does exactly as
I want.
Much appreciated.

"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:%jW3d.228627$Fg5.21261@attbi_s53...
> Schooner wrote:
>> Is there a formula to determine the approx gird ratio for lat long at a
>> given point, i.e. if the X axis scale is 1000 for each degree, how can
>> one
>> determine the Y axis scale for each degree in order to create a rectangle
>> grid for that region?
>>
>> Basically I want to be able to take a lat/long point and create a
>> rectangular grid of the proper scale around it.
>
> 1000 cos (lat)



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