[NUUG fiksgatami] Changes to support lat/long

selvam velmurugan selvam.velmurugan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 18:44:30 CET 2009


Great. Thanks.

PS: BTW, I'd mailed Karl 3 times (over past couple of weeks) requesting for
a quote and haven't heard a response yet :( Do you know if he's been
travelling or on vacation ?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Matthew Somerville
<matthew at mysociety.org>wrote:

> selvam velmurugan wrote:
>
>> After a brief discussion with Petter, wanted to quickly ping you to see if
>> there might be any issues/concerns with adding lat/long support for the
>> mapping part.
>>
>
> I can't think of any. I used easting/northings as that was what our various
> lookups already used, and it's easier to work with in the UK, but it should
> all work fine with a different co-ordinate system.
>
> The database just needs two co-ordinates of some form, it doesn't care what
> they are. The main bits that use the co-ordinates are the map&pin display
> functions, obviously, and the functions to see what council a point is in.
> You need to alter both of these anyway, as you're using different maps and
> lookups, so you can choose your own co-ordinate system.
>
>  Ideally, we should be able to make it configurable so that different
>> regions can chose from a list of supported co-ordinate systems.
>>
>
> Sure, as I'm not going to change how FixMyStreet works :-)
>
> ATB,
> Matthew
>
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