theonlyguy Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 What does this mean? How would you say to your buddy your location and that are the difrent names for the diffrent formats? IE: N 49° 28.996 W 119° 36.441 N=North 49° = 49th parallel 28= ?? .=?? 996 = ?? minutes?? seconds?? what?? dd°mm.mmm' = ?? dd.ddddd° = ?? dd° mm'ss.s" =?? Guy Quote Link to comment
+Kryten Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 What does this mean? How would you say to your buddy your location and that are the difrent names for the diffrent formats? IE: N 49° 28.996 W 119° 36.441 N=North 49° = 49th parallel 28= ?? .=?? 996 = ?? minutes?? seconds?? what?? "North 49 degrees 28 point 996 minutes" "West One hundred [and] nineteen degrees, thirty six point four four one minutes" [ = Britspeak ] dd°mm.mmm' = ?? "degrees minutes" dd.ddddd° = ?? "decimal degrees" dd° mm'ss.s" =?? "degree minutes seconds" Guy Quote Link to comment
+Bundyrumandcoke Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 N 49° 28.996 W 119° 36.441 This example of yours would be read as North 49 Degrees 28 point 966 minutes, West 119 degrees 36 point 441 minutes And written as N 49 28.966 W 119 36.441 In Deg Minutes and Seconds the same coordinates would be N 49d 17m 23s W 119d 21m 51s And said as North 49 degrees 17 minutes 23 seconds, West 119 degrees 21 minutes 51 seconds. This page gives you instructions on how to convert Degrees and decimals of a degree to Degrees, Minutes and Seconds. http://geography.about.com/library/howto/htdegrees.htm And boy, believe me, its confusing doing your calculations as I am so used to South and East coordinates. Hope this helps Cheers Bundy Quote Link to comment
theonlyguy Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 Thank you McKryton and Bundyrumandcoke you are a great help! Still new at this GPS stuff. Now I can give my coordinates over the radio to my friends. Guy Quote Link to comment
theonlyguy Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 And boy, believe me, its confusing doing your calculations as I am so used to South and East coordinates. Hope this helps Cheers Bundy LOL ya guess it would be confusing. Guy Quote Link to comment
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