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Russian Transport Ministry authorized to create ERA-GLONASS system
The Russian Transport Ministry has been made the authorized federal body of executive authority for the creation, organization and ensuring functioning of the ERA-GLONASS automated information system. The large-scale ERA-GLONASS project was launched in Russia in 2011. This road accident urgent response system that uses Russia’s GLONASS envisages the introduction of the single 112 emergency phone number in the country. The project is implemented in conjunction with the Social GLONASS program that will help aged people and persons with impaired vision to find the needed route, and parents to be always in the now where their children are. http://en.itar-tass.com/
GPS pressure leads Ordnance Survey to ponder map co-ordinates change
Britain’s national mapping agency is considering abandoning a system of co-ordinates on its maps first devised more than 180 years ago.
Ordnance Survey is seeking views on changing its latitude and longitude markers to a system used by most GPS devices.
The organisation stressed it is not changing its national grid references, which are used by most outdoor enthusiasts, but may change the lat and long datum to the WGS84 model, in recognition that most users now refer to that, rather than its present Airy 1830, which was devised by Britain’s Astronomer Royal in the 19th century. www.grough.co.uk/
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