Autodesk geography tool goes open source

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Sep 26, 2007 11:49 PM
By CNET News
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Autodesk on Tuesday announced it will release as open-source software a tool that can convert geographic coordinate data from one format to another. If you're not a map nut, that's the challenge one might encounter switching, for example, from latitude and longitude to Universal Transverse Mercator--or from geocentric latitude to geodetic latitude, for that matter.

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