Wgs84 Dms To Dd.mm.mmm
I have GPS coordinates in the form
Lat = 3648.5518Lon = 17443.258
There is probably a way to do this, but I can't find a way to transform a GPS DMS format to degree decimal in R. From GPS coordinate, see below, is there a way to transform this in R? Gps.coord mmm W,E dd mm.mmm. This is the way I made it! (There is probably a better way). Excel doesn't have a built formula to convert geographical coordinates from degrees/minutes/seconds to decimal degrees or viceversa. One solution is to run a custom VBA script that does the job.
I want to convert then to the more traditional format
Wgs84 Dms To Dd.mm.mmm Video
Lat = -36.8091667 Lon = 174.7209667
I can do this through string manipulation as shown below. However this approach seems very 'wordy'.Is there a better way (any inbuilt functionality) to achieve this conversion in Python 3.4? my searches have come up blank. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Steve (New to python/programming)
1 Answer
It looks like the input is an abuse of decimal notation to place write deg min as 100*deg + min.
You can extract the degree, minute and second parts with modulo division. Split into two functions for clarity.
James KJames K
