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how do you read out the coordinates properly?


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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

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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

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