[Qgis-user] convert UTM_UPS data from gps to decimal degrees

[G. Allegri]

I was focused to answer how to translate to decimals and I didn't notice
they were higher then 60! :-)

Anyway, I was referring to having decimal of seconds...

giovanni

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Il giorno 13/mar/2013 21:11, <b.j.kobben at utwente.nl> ha scritto:

> Latitude-longitude coordinates with minutes (') or seconds (") higher then
> 60 is not just unusual, as giovanni calls it, they're plain impossible.
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> So that suggest your data is corrupted, I suggest you go back to the
> source and find out what has happened along the way...
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> Gerardo Jimenez wrote
> > First, your data is kind of rare, you can not have more than 60 minutes
> or
> > more than 60 seconds (50°96'06''2N for instance).
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> Share Gerardo's confusion. How can you have a geographic ordinate like
> 50°96'06''2N, it doesn't make sense. Surely no GPS receiver would produce
> geographic coordinates like this.
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> Nick.
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