Lat long formats?

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Lat long formats?

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sprucegoose	sprucegoose posted 5/23/2016 8:53:30 PM Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 51, Visits: 173	Wikipedia gives three formats for Lat & long: degrees minutes seconds: 40° 26′ 46″ N 79° 58′ 56″ W degrees decimal minutes: 40° 26.767′ N 79° 58.933′ W decimal degrees: 40.446° N 79.982° W Which of these is the Sky Demon format, which seems unlike any of these: 7.2 nm SW Leiston N520737 E0012604 (W0.2°) It's not the first, because I tried plugging that into my Garmin 430 (which uses degrees minutes seconds) and it was wrong.
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Sky Painter	Sky Painter posted 5/23/2016 9:10:42 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 626, Visits: 15K	See page 15 of the User Manual. Mike _________________________________________ Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 – Android 11.0 & SD 4.0.2.0 Huawei P30 – Android 11.0 & SD 4.0.2.0 PC – Windows 10 (Home Ed) Version 2009, Build 19045.5917, SD 4.0.2.0
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 5/24/2016 10:05:17 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.3K	SkyDemon supports entry in all common formats, and you can control the format in which it expresses coordinates by setting one of two values in the unit configuration screen.
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