Thanks Joe. In the process of doing three different counties I am finding some errors in USGS but not many. My biggest problem was in the conversion to decimal places and now I'm humming along. I will be checking out Tiger soon to see if easier steps than what I've been going through. It sounds like it is. Thanks again. Sincerely, Mike Emmons Traill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garnett J.(Joe) Zsedeny" <jzsed@starband.net> To: <NDGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [NDGENWEB-L] (no subject) > Okay, Mike, lets find the village of Pembina, Pembina County with > USGS coordinates of > 485759N, 0971436W or 48degrees 57' 59", 097degrees 14' 36". To > convert: 48.57/60+59/3600 = 48.9664 and > 097.14/60+36/3600 = -97.2433. The minus is needed because we are west > of the zero or Greenwich, UK meridian. Anyway put these coordinates > into http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl?. Use the select > chart to plot roads, villages, etc. There may be errors in some of > the coordinates given by USGS, I don't know. > > For those who like to explore cemeteries and own a GPS receiver it > should be possible to stand in the middle of a cemetery, take a > reading, record the coordinates and later use the above method to > exactly plot the cemetery for a drive to map. > > Joe > > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:50:32 -0700, Mike Peterson wrote: > >When I first started on something like this I was using msn mappoint > >but > >when I entered USGS coordinates into the parameters it would take me > >to > >weird places mostly out of the county and some ended up invalid. Now > >I'm > >thinking that the conversion Joe is talking about below is what > >mappoint > >also uses. Joe, could you provide us an example of a USGS converted? > >I know > >you provided a formula but I guess it's because of the terminology > >that I > >don't follow. > >Sincerely, > >Mike > >Emmons > >Traill > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Garnett J.(Joe) Zsedeny" <jzsed@starband.net> > >To: <NDGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:35 AM > >Subject: Re: [NDGENWEB-L] (no subject) > > > > > >>Hi Don, > >> > >>I don't know if this will help but you can use the township maps > >>from > >>the Ward County Archives page: > >>http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eusgenweb/nd/ward/ward.htm to locate the > >>townships. > >> > >>Then, and I really hesitate to get into this because it is > >>complicated and I haven't used it for several years but here goes. > >> > >>If you have the geographical coordinates from the USGS they can be > >>converted from degrees, minutes, seconds to degrees and tenths and > >>plugged into the Census Bureau Tiger Map Server Gazatteer. Here is > >>the general URL for the Tiger Map Browser: > >>http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl?. Using the converted > >>USGS coordinates for any location you can create a map with county, > >>state and US highway numbers pinpointing cemeteries, towns or > >>whatever for a drive to. For examples go here: > >>http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Endpembin/cemdex.htm. > >> > >>Conversion from degrees, minutes, seconds is > >>degrees.min/60+sec/3600. > >> > >>Joy, if I screwed this up please step in <G>. > >> > >>Joe Zsedeny > >> > >> > >>On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:05:35 EDT, DTGARDNER@aol.com wrote: > >>>Hello > >>> > >>>I just updated "Ward County Roots". > >>> > >>>I added all the Churches, Cemeteries and Schools from the USGS and > >>>the XY > >>>Data site. Their only location data is a section number. It could > >>>be > >>>in the > >>>middle of main street for all I can tell so if you know of a > >>>better > >>>location > >>>please let me know > >>> > >>>If anyone sees errors please let me know. I know there are many > >>>missing > >>>places and am still looking for more lists and Ideas. > >>> > >>>I am going try to link Cemetery names to sites that are already on > >>>line next. > >>> > >>>Thanks > >>>Don Gardner > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >