[at-l] It was SO obvious!

["Sam Teel" <steel@sfwmd.gov>]

Now why did I pester the list members asking a question with such an OBVIOUS
answer.  If I had just thought for a minute or a second (easy for me to say) I
would have known all I had to do was:

Take the decimal longitude or latitude
Remove the digits to the left of the decimal
Multiply the digits to the right by 60
Remove the digits to the left of the decimal of that number and store it
somewhere
Multiply the digits to the right of the number I stored somewhere, by 60
Round that number to the nearest 10th
Take the first number that I removed and call that the degrees
Take the number I stored somewhere and call that the minutes
Take the number I rounded and call that the seconds

Or....just tell the GPS I want to display decimal.  Man, where's the instruction
book that came with that GPS  ;)

Sam
Seriously, Thanks to all who replied.  I actually was able to do it.


Tom Fort wrote:

> take 35.558588.  that's 35 degrees with .558588 remainder
> .558588 x 60 (minutes per degree) = 33.51528 = 33 minutes with .51528
> remainder
> .51528 x 60 (seconds per minute) = 30.9168 = as far as you can go.
> therefore 35.558588 deg = 35 deg   33 min  30.9 sec.
> or, if your gps is like mine, just change the setup to display in decimal
> degrees; enter the number; then, change setup back to DMS.
> t.



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