Conversion
Thu, 02/15/2007 - 2:06pm
17 years
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I am new to task of creating POI files. How do I convert degrees,minutes,seconds to decimal degrees?
17 years
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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.
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.
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