From: Marcus.Cole <marcus.cole@noaa.gov>
To: Jenny Stone <jnstone@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: GEN: lat/long from a projected view
Date: Friday, March 26, 1999 6:44 AM

Jenny,

You might be able to get by with something like the following which
should give you geographic coords:
thePrj = theView.GetProjection
theDisplay = theView.GetDisplay
thePoint = theDisplay.ReturnUserPoint.ReturnUnprojected(thePrj)

Good luck,

Marcus
marcus.cole@noaa.gov

Jenny Stone wrote:
> 
> Hi all. I'm working with data in a projected view (DRGs in UTM zone 10, for
> example). I'd like to be able to get the lat/long of a point returned from
> the cursor. Does anyone have an existing (modifiable) script that does this,
> or know of another way to do it? Thanks.
> 
> Jenny Stone
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