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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: hobgoblins in the Usenet maps
Message-ID: <1047@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sun, 31-Aug-86 19:29:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1047
Posted: Sun Aug 31 19:29:11 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 31-Aug-86 21:36:30 EDT
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Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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Part of the problem is that some little mind decided to change the order
of latitude versus longitude in the "how to fill in your map entry" text.
So tell us, lords of the Usenet maps, which way do you really want it?

From: ihnp4!seismo!caip!UUCP-Mapping-Project
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 85 21:44:10 est
Subject: We need a map entry from you
#L	latitude / longitude
This should be in the following format:
#L	NNN MM [SS] E|W / NN MM [SS] N|S [city]

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The remainder of this file describes the format of the UUCP map data.
It was written July 9, 1985 by Erik E. Fair <ucbvax!fair>, and
last updated December 17, 1985 by Mark Horton <cbosgd!mark>.

#L	latitude / longitude
This should be in the following format:
#L	DD MM [SS] "N"|"S" / DDD MM [SS] "E"|"W" ["city"]
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
		     May the Source be with you!