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WeatherCat => WeatherCat General Discussion => Topic started by: parkernathan on April 19, 2014, 06:27:31 AM

Title: Converting Lat/Lon to Hundredths of Minutes
Post by: parkernathan on April 19, 2014, 06:27:31 AM

I'm having issues converting my Lat/Lon to hundredths of minutes. How would I go about doing that?

My Lat/Lon is:

34.4600639 (34? 27' 36.2304")
-93.04961395 (-93? 2' 58.6104")

Thanks!

Title: Re: Converting Lat/Lon to Hundredths of Minutes
Post by: wurzelmac on April 19, 2014, 08:03:22 AM

Here you are!
Cheers,
Reinhard

Title: Website for doing that. (Re: Converting Lat/Lon to Hundredths of Minutes)
Post by: elagache on April 19, 2014, 09:39:13 PM

Hi Nathan and WeatherCat fans,

Quote from: wxbugnathan on April 19, 2014, 06:27:31 AM

I'm having issues converting my Lat/Lon to hundredths of minutes. How would I go about doing that?

If anybody else has this problem there is a website that does the conversion from the FCC:

http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html (http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html)

The website has been there for a few years, hopefully it will be a resource we can count on.

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

Title: Re: Converting Lat/Lon to Hundredths of Minutes
Post by: HantaYo on April 20, 2014, 02:45:42 PM

Because there are 60 seconds in a minute:

Take your seconds and divide by 60 (36.2304/60) = .60384.  Add that to you minutes and round up 27 + .60384 = 27.60'

Title: Re: Converting Lat/Lon to Hundredths of Minutes
Post by: Felix on May 17, 2014, 02:45:55 AM

And another online Lat/Lon conversion calculator which is drop-dead easy to use:

http://www.directionsmag.com/site/latlong-converter/

Title: Re: Converting Lat/Lon to Hundredths of Minutes
Post by: Bull Winkus on May 17, 2014, 04:59:42 AM

I usually just fire up Google Earth, set the preferences to the format I want and find my location. Granted, I don't do this very often.