[Therion] Degrees: minutes in centreline

[Andrew Atkinson]

sorry I have not been clear enough, yes it works with lat-long

it is when you try it in centreline it does not work

centreline
   data normal from to tape compass clino
   1 2 3.24 -6:50 1:50

thanks

Andrew

On 30/06/10 08:22, Martin Sluka wrote:
>
> 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.
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