[Ambassadors] Some ambassador map corrections

[Dan Mashal]

I dunno.. worked for me.

Dan
On Jun 24, 2012 9:22 AM, "Mathieu Bridon" <bochecha at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 02:34 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote:
> > It's a +/- thing.
>
> Not necessarily, it could be more complicated than that.
>
> There are various coordinates system in use in the world, depending
> mostly on the country (but not only, some countries can decide to change
> their standard coordinate system from time to time).
>
> So for example, take a point somewhere in the East of France. It could
> have different coordinates depending on the used projection system:
> - 48°35´59.9" / 7°44´12.2" in WGS84 Greenwich
> - 2413822m / 998137m in NTF extended Lambert II
>
> (note how they don't even use the same units)
>
> So IMHO, what's really needed to locate yourself properly on the
> ambassadors map is to know what is the projection system used by the
> map.
>
> Firebug tells me it seems to be "EPSG:4326", so that's the system people
> need to search their coordinates in.
>
> Alternatively, it is trivial with the OSM API to display the coordinates
> (in the right projection system) of the point under the mouse pointer,
> so that ambassadors can quickly know what to enter in FAS.
>
> Patches attached, with a bit of cleanup.
>
>
> --
> Mathieu
>
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