[Therion] Degrees: minutes in centreline

[Martin Sluka]

On 30.6.2010, at 8:53, Andrew Atkinson wrote:

> Hello
>
> We have lots of old data that we are trying input to build up our  
> area map. Lots of this data is in degrees and minutes.
> When dealing with co-ordinates (lat-long) 52:34:23.2 works as  
> degrees:minutes:seconds.
> I cannot seem to be able to get this format to work for survey data,  
> is there a way to use degrees:minutes, if not could it be added to  
> the things to be implemented, it would save lots of spread sheet  
> work converting it, and make checking back to the original data far  
> easier for future users of the data
>
> thanks
>
> Andrew
>
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It should be possible according Thbook:

lat-long, long-lat ◃ latitude (N positive, S negative) and longitude  
(E positive,
W negative) in given order in degrees (deg[:min[:sec]] allowed), WGS84  
datum. By
default, not supported on output.

52:34.56461 ?

m.