Entering Lat / Long

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TomMelvin
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Entering Lat / Long

Post by TomMelvin »

I noticed with RC1 of version 5 the 'pull down' (hh mm sss.ss) associated with entering lat/log is no longer there.

Do you have any comments on the best way to enter the different formats of lat/log.
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Re: Entering Lat / Long

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Hi Tom

I will add the dropdown functionality in a simillar way also to version 5.0 before the final release. In the meantime you can, for example, copy/paste the coordinates out of Google Earth, it is exactly the same format as it is displayed in the Placemark tool window.

Best regards,
Sven
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Re: Entering Lat / Long

Post by TomMelvin »

Thanks for the quick reply Sven

Happy to wait - I do find entering the lat/long on DL 4 to be a little hard work - it's ok if I have it in hh mm ss but many places use hh mm.mmmm
so I have to use a web site to convert - how about an option in 'Calculate' to handle the different datum formats.

Thanks

Tom
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Re: Entering Lat / Long

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Hi Tom

Yes, that's the reason why it is not yet included, I want to add more input formats, which takes a little bit longer.

Sven
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