Google Earth & Lat-Long
Tue, 06/03/2008 - 7:20pm
 16 years
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I think I'm either being dense or I don't remember my Earth Science (probably both). I'm looking at Google Earth and I see a cemetery in Lowell, IN well over 200 miles from me. I see the Lat & Long given at the bottom of the page as Degrees and Minutes ie 41º 22' 40.80 N. Now I do not know how to convert that to a number with 5 or 6 decimal places to put in a POI file. I know I can't just put a decimal point after the 41º so what do I do? Do I divide the 22 by 60? if so what happens to the 40.8?? Please help this retired Science teacher.
Making poi in google earth
Check this out and see if it helps you any.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/5154
Jerry...Jacksonville,Fl Nüvi1450,Nuvi650,Nuvi 2495 and Mapsource.
When you ask google
To send or mail the location by right clicking on it, you will see the coordinates in decimal in the upper right corner... There are also a few websites that will do a conversion from degs and mins to decimal... I belive I saw one that you could enter the address and it would give you the coordinates..
Edit OOOppps wrong site, Click on tools, 3d view and change show lat/long to decimal
Edit edit:
The above works if you put a marker at the spot, right click on the marker and then select from here to there...
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. -Sophocles snɥɔnıɥdoɐ aka ʎɹɐƃ
More conversion information
I found an answer for myself already but thanks for reading this. The FCC (seems like an unlikely place) has a conversion page: http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html . I also remembered you had to take the Minutes times 60 to convert to Seconds, add the Seconds and divide by 3600.
NUVI 660, Late 2012 iMac, Macbook 2.1 Fall 2008, iPhone6 , Nuvi 3790, iPad2
Change Google Earth
Unless you have some other specific need to see degrees, change the options in Google Earth to show the decimal values.
Tools, Options, Decimal Degrees (middle left)
Thanks
Thanks, I never thought about changing the prefs. George
NUVI 660, Late 2012 iMac, Macbook 2.1 Fall 2008, iPhone6 , Nuvi 3790, iPad2
Yes, in a nutshell...
Decimal degrees = DD + MM/60 + SS.SS/3600
No need to change preference settings
You can enter Google Earth placemark coordinates in decimal form directly, regardless of the display preference setting. GE will automagically convert and display the result per your preferences.
I just finished doing that for a number of POIs along I-95.