Hey gang When you get all through finding the GPS coordinates, you can find that cemetery by setting your receiver and following the pointer until it sez you are here. Most of us don't have time to do it that way. We are looking to find the cemetery's location on the township map which is a part of the county atlas or whatever. We'd like to know what road to take and about where from the corner of that section we are to starting looking for some white stones and a mob of lilacs. So when you get all through dinging with latitude and longitude etc., have you found any easy method for translating that to the legal discription as being in the NE1/4 of section 10-144-65? If you have--let us all know as it would make life a heck of a lot easier for those of us who have to find those cemeteries. George
Hi George and everyone: If the math gives you brain cramps, go to http://www.esg.montana.edu/gl/xy-data2.html You do not even have to convert the degrees, minutes, seconds to decimal degrees. Taking Joe's example of Pembina, I typed in 48 57 59 into the first three boxes and 97 14 36 into the next 3 and clicked "submit" It gives me the decimal latitude and longitude, plus the legal description : North Dakota, Fifth Principal Meridian T163N,R51W,sec4 Plus it gives me 10 more nearby named places - and the distance to each one. --- "George L. Barron" <gbarron@daktel.com> wrote: > Hey gang > > When you get all through finding the GPS > coordinates, you can find that cemetery by setting > your receiver and following the pointer until it sez > you are here. > > Most of us don't have time to do it that way. We > are looking to find the cemetery's location on the > township map which is a part of the county atlas or > whatever. We'd like to know what road to take and > about where from the corner of that section we are > to starting looking for some white stones and a mob > of lilacs. > > So when you get all through dinging with latitude > and longitude etc., have you found any easy method > for translating that to the legal discription as > being in the NE1/4 of section 10-144-65? If you > have--let us all know as it would make life a heck > of a lot easier for those of us who have to find > those cemeteries. > > George > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail