[Xastir] Coordinate Calculator

[William McKeehan]

Maybe I need to go to the coffee pot myself...I was overlooking the fact that
the 84 seconds was out of range.

Thanks, I hate it when I make stupid mistakes!

On Fri, May 13, 2005 10:08 am, Gerry Creager N5JXS said:
> I tend to be a bit old fashioned, but I just used '30 36.25' for lat
> (note: positive NORTH) and '-96 22.255' (note: positive EAST!) and it
> worked for  me.  Haven't looked at the docs lately, but what I used is
> sorta standard in the geomatics/cartography world.
>
> AHA!!!!!!
>
> '084 47 84W' is NOT a valid entry.
>
> That's supposed to be 'ddd mm ssEW' and you appear to have entered dd,
> mm and .mm when there's no such convention.
>
> In other words, the '84W' confuses things.  Seconds have a range of 0.
> to 59..
>
> I'm still a bit coffee-deficient so if this isn't clear, let me know and
> I can launch into lecture mode later...
>
> Gerry
> William McKeehan wrote:
>> I have not used the Coordinate Calculator in Xastir before, and now that I'm
>> trying it, I'm having problems.
>>
>> I have entered in
>> 35 30 00N and
>> 084 47 84W
>>
>> When I click calculate, I get the message "Sorry, your input was not
>> recognized!"
>>
>> Can someone point out what I am doing wrong?
>>
>
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