Coordinate Conversion

[+The Pastor & Pastor's Wife]

I have run into some coordiantes that I cannot get into a DD MM.MMM format.

The coord's I'm having to convert have an nn(degrees) nn (min) nn(sec) format, one long number like 311457N 0941615W

I try to enter as DD MM SS but that doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

[+mb3]

I think GeoCalc will do that conversion for you. GeoCalc

Edited January 2, 2006 by mb3

[+fizzymagic]

Yes. You can use GeoCalc, which I wrote and which is free, or plug them in to this page.

 

Or you can do it by hand. I think Markwell has a FAQ on that here.

[+Alan2]

Set your GPS to the Position you will be entering the coordinates. Once entered, you can switch the GPS to get any other positional display such a dd mm.mmm or dd.ddddd etc.

 

As an aside, the numbers you displayed seem very strange. Are those suppose to be UTM coorinates not dd mm ss?

[+The Pastor & Pastor's Wife]

Just FYI, I did figure this out and have used Geocalc.

The one set of coordinates that I was using was off by about 2 miles. This is what confused me about the whole thing. When I being to use the same program to convert DD MM SS all of the others were correct.

Murphy's law applies in caching too!

Thanks for everyone's input.