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Old 05-06-2006
Wilfried Wilfried is offline
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Hi,

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The data came with a format like this: 119.58.56
It looks like the data from the GPS unit is in decimal minutes, as the second values are over 60 (some of them)
If the secondary values are over 59 (like 119.88.55) then the 88 is not minutes. Are you sure this comes from a GPS receiver without some obscure conversion bofore it is stored into Excellformat ?

Normally a GPS receiver gives data in NMEA0183 format witch is ddmm.fff(f) for longitude and dddmm.fff(f) for latitude. Where fff(f) are the fractions of the minute.
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