I've been reading a lot of books about the Grail Legend, the Knights Templar, the Masons, and the bloodline of Jesus. I'm also taking classes in Geographic Information Systems. I'd like to collect GPS coordinates for the famous sites mentioned in these books and maybe plot them in a GIS system. Actual digital photos of these places would be nice also to allow the photo to pop-up when the computer mouse hovers over the plotted site. For example I have found GPS coordinates from a geocache left at Rosslyn Chapel.
per Geocaching.com, the coordinates are in the WGS84 Datum.
N 55° 51.238 W 003° 09.612
British Grid: NT 27467 62911
translated by jeEep.com
Latitude
Longitude DMS
55°51'14.28" N
3°9'36.72" W MinDec
55°51.23802
-3°9.612 DegDec
55.853967
-3.1602 Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone
Easting (meters)
Northing (meters) 30
489971
6189838
Coordinates are not inside conterminous 48 States, no NAD-27 data provided.
See description of Rosslyn Chapel Site at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosslyn_Chapel
Rosslyn Pictures
http://img.groundspeak.com/cache/6c5aa072-c39d-46fc-884e-51d8a9df2461.jpg
http://img.groundspeak.com/cache/88dc0d31-6d58-4da8-b0e0-a4d1871acf72.jpg
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=55.853967&longitude=-3.1602
Update: February 23, 2008 - GPS coordinates from Wikipedia.
55° 51′ 19″ N, 3° 9′ 29″ W Decimal 55.855278°, -3.158056°
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