Conversion

 

I am new to task of creating POI files. How do I convert degrees,minutes,seconds to decimal degrees?

Converting to decimal

You can go to the following website calculator: http://gpsvisualizer.com/calculators

Also, you can perform the calculation yourself. The decimal equivalent is equal to the degrees + the minutes/60 + the seconds/3600. You can set that up easily in an excel spreadsheet.

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Garmin StreetPilot c530, Mapsource

You can go to many sites to

You can go to many sites to have it converted such as below:
http://id.mind.net/~zona/mmts/trigonometryRealms/degMinSec/d... or if you are using Google Earth, there is a setting you can change that will give the decimal coordinates needed for .csv files.

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NickJr Nuvi 3597LMT

I assume the setting change

I assume the setting change you mention is only available with Google Earth Plus? I don't see where you can change from d/m/s to decimals.

-Tom

Nevermind...

I found it under tools/options/rendering