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GPS and Jules Verne

From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:43:41 -0000
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

BlankI would like to know just how accurate Jules's GPS locations are. The
reason I am asking is that I remember there was quite a discussion about the
accuracy of the GPS co-ordinates for Stones Hill and wondered if this
applied to all GPS locations Jules writes about. As I am sure everyone knows
when referring to Stones Hill he says:

This spot is situated eighteen hundred feet above the level of the sea, in
27~at~ 7' N. lat. and 5~at~ 7' W. long. of the meridian of Washington. It appears
to me by its rocky and barren character to offer all the conditions
requisite for our experiment. On that plain will be raised our magazines,
workshops, furnaces, and workmen's huts; and here, from this very spot,"
said he, stamping his foot on the summit of Stones Hill, "hence shall our
projectile take its flight into the regions of the Solar World

If I understand it correctly he means 27° 7' North of the Equator and 5° 7'
West of Washington DC the only problem with that is it's just to the north
of the Bahamas! So therefore when Jules quotes GPS locations are they based
on the Greenwich meridian or the Paris meridan?

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