Around the World in 80 Days

[MerickOWA]

Weee that was fun. My living in Indiana and working with GIS software daily might have something to do with this challenge being easy tho

[gfoot]

It took me a while to find the right coordinate system - and I still don't know what the Ts mean, the site I used to convert to lat/long didn't care about them anyway. Then I tried a few nearby place names before switching to satellite photo mode and seeing the obvious.

[michuber]

After a while I found that UTM could be the key, but it took me 3 months
to find out that I've switched the longitude and latitude values...

[trofi]

Is second 'T' a valid one? (I assumet UMT)
I had to remove it before stuffing result to:

http://www.earthpoint.us/Convert.aspx

[AMindForeverVoyaging]

Is second 'T' a valid one? (I assumet UMT)

I don't think it is valid as part of the coordinates itself. Here it probably rather functions as a separator between the easting and northing coordinate pair, I guess?

[yes-man]

This challenge took me about 15min .. A LOT of luck was involved, I guess.

Decoding the 80s into numbers was straight forward. Looking at them (with 'world' in mind) they seemed like they could be coordinates. One of them starting out with 54 was even better, because Europe and such. Ended up in Russia, tried the village name, the region .. no luck.

I was wondering about the 16 at the beginning. So I searched Wikipedia for all kinds of geo coordinate systems. One looked at least not completely wrong, UTM. The 16 could be the zone .. Converter looks complicated. Hmm, the T would fit the band.

Well, and now I'm here. Again, mostly luck :D