Copying a Route with exact co-ordinates

[Serjeant]

Hi All
I have been extending the Oxford Paddington Route to Weston super Mare via Bath and Bristol. After installing the upgrade all the new trackwork dissapeared but fortunately I had made a back up so I just copied all the files back into the Paddington Oxford Route folder. The question is: I would like to make a second copy of the post patch Oxford Paddington Route but how do I do this with the same latitude and longditude co-ordinated as the original default route. I need to be able to do this because I an using Google Earth for acurate placing of trackwork etc.

Thanks in anticipation,

Pete

[godabyc]

The only way I've found to get the exact same co-ords is to edit the routes.xml file and overwrite a section for your new route with the xml from the template route - see the last post in this thread - http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 15&t=78814 Take a backup of routes.xml first of course.

[jetgriff]

my route Bristol Sheffield was created to extend the Bath Templecombe route onwards.

I created a new route, then before laying any track (otherwise it starts off at 000000 000000) i copied all the files out of the bath folder into the new folder. in routes.xml i changed the folowing readings the long and lat and the zone numbers. google earth co ords now match ok

<sGeoPosition>
<Lat d:type="sFloat64" d:alt_encoding="46B6F3FDD4B04940" d:precision="string">51.3815</Lat>
<Long d:type="sFloat64" d:alt_encoding="88855AD3BCE3FBBF" d:precision="string">-1.7431</Long>
</sGeoPosition>
</Origin>
<MapOffset>
<sMapCoords>
<Easting d:type="sFloat64" d:alt_encoding="000000006083E540" d:precision="string">44059.0000</Easting>
<Northing d:type="sFloat64" d:alt_encoding="0000000006B75541" d:precision="string">5692440.0000</Northing>
</sMapCoords>
</MapOffset>
<ZoneNumber d:type="sInt32">30</ZoneNumber>
<ZoneLetter d:type="cDeltaString">U</ZoneLetter>

[moeraki]

I understand about the Coordinates but can you tell me about the Zone numbers and how they work.
Thanks
Moe