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

From: Seagull (seagull_at_aracnet.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: 30 Oct 2004 07:27:37 GMT

Mujtaba <tomujtaba@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

As others have pointed out, you need to know how those integer values
correspond to lat and long. Having a number by itself means nothing.

I suggest you contact the creators of the source data and ask them how they
converted from lat/long to an integer number, then reverse it.

Cheers,
-+JLS 

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