[aprssig] APRS LAT/LONG standards

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Ron Stordahl wrote:

> This discussion reminds me of the Air Canada passenger jet from Toronto
> to Vancouver that was forced down at Brandon Manitoba when the fuel ran
> out..  Seems the fuel was loaded in pounds rather than kilograms.
>
> I don't suppose there is any possibility that we will soon be measning
> angles in radians rather than degrees is there?  2 pi radians = 360 degrees.

Look inside the Xastir code (you can do that 'cuz it's open-source).
We do some of our calculations in radians!  hi hi

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