Re: How to Integer to degree,minute,second conversion...

From: Dave Patton (spam_at_trap.invalid)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:11:57 GMT

tomujtaba@hotmail.com (Mujtaba) wrote in
news:8f4f92aa.0410282304.555bff38@posting.google.com:

> Hi
>
> i am working on a software where i am working with latitude,
> longitude. I am reading input from XML file where data is in integer
> format like 408739, -11154
> etc for latitude and longitude etc. Now i have to process it in
> degree, minute and second format.

First you have to know what "408739" and "-11154" actually mean.
Just saying they are "integer format" doesn't mean much.
For example, 408739 could be:
40.8739 degrees north latitude
113 degrees, 32 minutes, 19 seconds north latitude
(otherwise known as 408739 seconds north latitude) 

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Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
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