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Subject: Lat Long conversion from DMS to Decimal

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Beth Gamble
Posts:17

28-02-2007 4:29 AM	Alert
Hello EMu Users, NMNH has been requesting / begging KE to increase the precision at which they are calculating the decimal degree value from an entered DMS latitude or longitude value for a very long time. It was requested by KE for us to get a larger body of approval for this change in conversion philosophy. We finally did this at the October 2006 North America EMu Users Group meeting. The group we presented this to and obtained approval from was the Natural History EMu users group. I then dropped the ball on this and failed to get a summary of those changes to the group. I have rectified that today and also wanted the larger EMu community as a whole to see as well. Hence my submission here. If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to contact me. Cheers, Beth :-)
Attachment: Lat-Long-DMS-to-Decimal-conversion.pdf
-- Beth L. Gamble - Senior Systems Analyst Informatics Office, Office of the Assistant Director for Information Technology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution

Beth Gamble
Posts:17

30-03-2007 11:48 PM	Alert
Hi All, I posted the following in the Sites Forum when the email was not working. I just wanted to bring this to folks attention. Please see the full post at EMuUsers.org to see the attachment. Thanks, Beth :-) Posted By Beth Gamble on 28-02-2007 4:29 AM Hello EMu Users, NMNH has been requesting / begging KE to increase the precision at which they are calculating the decimal degree value from an entered DMS latitude or longitude value for a very long time. It was requested by KE for us to get a larger body of approval for this change in conversion philosophy. We finally did this at the October 2006 North America EMu Users Group meeting. The group we presented this to and obtained approval from was the Natural History EMu users group. I then dropped the ball on this and failed to get a summary of those changes to the group. I have rectified that today and also wanted the larger EMu community as a whole to see as well. Hence my submission here. If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to contact me. Cheers, Beth :-)

-- Beth L. Gamble - Senior Systems Analyst Informatics Office, Office of the Assistant Director for Information Technology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution

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