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Tom Donahue wrote:
That doesn't make much sense. Formats either use decimal degrees, decimal
minutes (as in mm.mm...) or full minutes and seconds, but not decimal
minutes *and* seconds. To get from minutes to decimal degrees, merely divide
by 60 since there are sixty minutes per degree. Unless seconds are mixed
in...
Mike.
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On Wed, 26 May 2010 08:59:35 -0700 (PDT), Tom Donahue
>Do you have any recommended way of converting ddmm.mmmm to decimal
>degrees? We found that if we treated the format as ddmm.mmss it
>worked a lot better for getting accuracy at the location we were at.
>-Thomas Donahue
>degrees? We found that if we treated the format as ddmm.mmss it
>worked a lot better for getting accuracy at the location we were at.
>-Thomas Donahue
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> degrees? We found that if we treated the format as ddmm.mmss it
> worked a lot better for getting accuracy at the location we were at.