Re: GPS


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Posted by Adam Quinan on September 29, 2006 at 11:07:04 from 72.136.51.111 user Adam.

In Reply to: Re: GPS posted by John Lambert on September 29, 2006 at 08:22:47:

According to its Help screens, Google Earth does accept latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes and decimal minutes. You should put a - sign in front of southerly latitudes or westerly longitudes.

Latitude and Longitude values can be set using the following notations:

* Decimal Degrees (DDD) In this notation, decimal precision is set in the degree coordinate. For example, 49.11675953666N.
* Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds (DMS). In this notation, decimal precision is set in the seconds coordinate. For example, 49 7'20.06"N.
* Degrees, Minutes with Decimal Seconds (DMM) In this notation, decimal precision is set in the minutes coordinate. For example, 49 7.0055722"N. (Here, 20.06 seconds above is divided by 3600 to get the decimal minute value for 20.06 seconds.)

Latitude and Longitude syntax is specified as follows:

* Numeric Values - Simply separate each coordinate notation with a white space and the entry will be recognized correctly. For example, you can indicate a DMS notation as: 37 24 23.3. You could indicate a DMM notation as 49 7.0055722.

You can also use the single quote mark (') for minutes and the double quote mark (") for seconds, as follows: 49 7'20.06"


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