[MLB-WIRELESS] Node map Coords

[Elliott Willink]

Kinglake, thats not that far out of melbourne and with
500+ nodes im suprised there wern't people closer. Its
most likly that there isnt any probem wtih your
co-ords. 10k's is still a very long way to create a
simple link tho.

Erolit

--- Damien Whyte <damien.whyte at purple-lazy.com> wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
>   I recently stumbled across the Melbourne Wireless
> web page and decided to enter in my own location
> just to see how depressingly far everyone else was
> away from Kinglake. :)
> 
> One thing I have noticed is that there seems to be
> quite a lot of nodes closer to me than expected - I
> think this is because their coordinates have been
> entered in Degrees Minute Seconds rather than
> decimal degrees.
> 
> So while it was rather exciting to have someone
> setting up a node a mere 10 km away from me, I guess
> the data may need to be cleaned up a little ...
> 
> Anyway guys best of luck - I guess I'll just have to
> wait until Telstra roll out a similar service. Bwah
> hah hah.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Damien.
> 
> 
> 


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