I need to convert coordinates in the following form:
N42-53.9° W072-16.2°
Into something that is like the following:
-90.7311 0.346944
A php function would be greatly appreciated – or just a formula would also be nice enough.
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Answer
I found an online JS calculator and a PHP solution:
<?php function DMStoDEC($deg,$min,$sec) { // Converts DMS ( Degrees / minutes / seconds ) // to decimal format longitude / latitude return $deg+((($min*60)+($sec))/3600); } function DECtoDMS($dec) { // Converts decimal longitude / latitude to DMS // ( Degrees / minutes / seconds ) // This is the piece of code which may appear to // be inefficient, but to avoid issues with floating // point math we extract the integer part and the float // part by using a string function. $vars = explode(".",$dec); $deg = $vars[0]; $tempma = "0.".$vars[1]; $tempma = $tempma * 3600; $min = floor($tempma / 60); $sec = $tempma - ($min*60); return array("deg"=>$deg,"min"=>$min,"sec"=>$sec); } ?>