An engineer up in Fairbanks sent me these coordinates for the location of some work to be done. It appears to be on a military base, Fort Greely I believe. The format of which has me stumped at the moment.?ÿ
63,5756.68N
-145,4335.70W
(The commas don't appear to be typos)
My first assumptions was that I was dealing with some variation on decimal degrees, but after converting and plotting in GE, I'm fairly certain that is not the case as it puts me on a glacier in a rather remote area.?ÿ?ÿ
Anyone recognize the format and how to convert to DMS or D.d??ÿ
TIA
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Have you tried 63?ø57'56.68" North, 145?ø43'35.70" West
I don't personally like the negative symbol in front. I always thought that the West delineation takes care of that.
Yes. I believe you're correct, at least it looks right in GE. It was the comma throwing me off. If I just treat it as a space and convert the decimal to DMS I come up with something very close. Thanks!
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
The commas represent the degree symbol. The balance is Minutes and Seconds with decimal. Convert that to decimal and add to degrees.?ÿ
I get 63?ø 57.9522' / 145?ø43.6028' which puts?ÿyou on Allen AFB?ÿ
Allen Army Airfield.?ÿ
The commas represent the degree symbol. The balance is Minutes and Seconds with decimal. Convert that to decimal and add to degrees.?ÿ
I get 63?ø 57.9522' / 145?ø43.6028' which puts?ÿyou on Allen AFB.?ÿ
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That makes sense. I get thrown for a loop every now then.?ÿ (;
Gotta love this place.
Good thing I didn't send that engineer off packing to the top of a glacier. Might have reflected poorly on my surveying acumen.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
It should EITHER have the negative longitude or say W or West.?ÿ Not both.
It should EITHER have the negative longitude or say W or West.?ÿ Not both.
I thought it was maybe some military way of describing lat/long I wasn't familiar with. Like instead of 6:00 am, 0600, or something like that. I'll be sure to pass your reprimand to the brass mucky-muck that supplied the 'coordinates'. Seeing as this base houses the missiles that are suppose to intercept incoming ICBMs, they probably should get this right.?ÿ
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
