[KnowItAll]

Anyone know where I can easily find a list of lattitudes / longitides for the major / minor districts or locations in Hong Kong?

[PDLM]

Wikipedia, for the 18 official Districts at least. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...stern_District
shows:
Latitude 22°17' N
Longitude 114°09' E
For all the other 17 districts similarly I guess.

[vmlinuz]

Handheld GPS and an Octopus card?

[Lammarite]

Google Earth will tell you.

[KnowItAll]

PDLM, unfortunately its incomplete ..

Lammarite, yeah, but I'd rather download a set ...

Tip I got http://www.landsd.gov.hk/mapping/welcome.htm

[kombuchakid]

I degee Latitude= 60 minutes
1 minute Latitude = 1852 meters[I nautical mile]=60 seconds
1 second Latitude = 30 meters [about 30 steps]

So measure your pace and go walk about in the various districts.

Now things get a bit hairy if you decide to measure distance using Longtitude
see page one

http://www.reachtheworld.org/floatin...acherGuide.pdf

[kostas]

Originally Posted by kombuchakid

I degee Latitude= 60 minutes
1 minute Latitude = 1852 meters[I nautical mile]=60 seconds
1 second Latitude = 30 meters [about 30 steps]

So measure your pace and go walk about in the various districts.

Now things get a bit hairy if you decide to measure distance using Longtitude
see page one

http://www.reachtheworld.org/floatin...acherGuide.pdf

Sounds like a nice alternative compared to the fleet management solution I am developing for my company

[kombuchakid]

Originally Posted by kostas

......the fleet management solution I am developing ...

Surely you are not one of them Greek shipping admirals?

[jimbo]

Originally Posted by kombuchakid

Surely you are not one of them Greek shipping admirals?

Like Stelios you mean?

[KnowItAll]

The coordinate system of Hong Kong Map is the "HK Grid 1980" which is a local coordinate system. However, it may be transformed to WGS84 by some conversion programs or engine. For information of HK digital map data, please visit the web site at

http://www.landsd.gov.hk/mapping/en/...igital_map.htm and you may get free sample on the page

http://www.landsd.gov.hk/mapping/en/...sampledata.htm

If you are interested in the transformation, please go to http://www.geodetic.gov.hk/smo/gsi/p...rence.htm#grid for details.

In english please?

Looks like Google Earth might be the best option at this point.