On Nov 15, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:05:26 -0300, Ronn Ross <ronn.r...@gmail.com> escribió: > >> I'm attempting to convert latitude and longitude coordinates from degrees >> minutes and second to decimal form. I would like to go from: >> N39 42 36.3 W77 42 51.5 >> to: >> -77.739855,39.706666 >> >> Does anyone know of a library or some existing out their to help with this >> conversion? > > Should be: > > decimal = degrees + minutes/60.0 + seconds/3600.0 > N,E are positive; S,W are negative. > > But the above numbers don't match.
It is more complicated than that. For negative numbers the value is degrees -minutes/60. - seconds/3600. And people always trip up on numbers that start with -00 :) Cheers Tommy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
