[garybb1]

Hi
I am setting up the software for my weather station and its asking for my location in tenths of degrees.
Would anyone be able to tell me how I convert my Lat/Long location in to tenths of degrees
Thanks

[JT118]

The easy way:

https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/calc/dms_decimal.cfm

or harder way;

http://mathforum.org/sarah/hamilton/ham.degrees.html

[hornychz]

Hi
I am setting up the software for my weather station and its asking for my location in tenths of degrees.
Would anyone be able to tell me how I convert my Lat/Long location in to tenths of degrees
Thanks

Hi garybb1,

I think the easiest way is to turn Google Maps on and right-click on your position:

[garybb1]

Thanks for your replies
I have found my Lat/Long coordinates from google maps and have them in both normal format and DMS format, I am unsure as to how to convert this format to tenths of degrees as requested by the software.
Sorry if I am missing something simple.
Thanks

[hornychz]

Sorry if I am missing something simple.

One sometimes worries about the problem that is possible for someone else's simple.
But that is why there is a forum and the rest of us ...

[werk_ag]

I am unsure as to how to convert this format to tenths of degrees as requested by the software.
Sorry if I am missing something simple.
Thanks

I will try to give an example for a place that I think its not far from you:

Basingstoke - Victory Roundabout: 51.266, -1.092
For a location like that you should use on the software: 512, -109 (always integers)

[garybb1]

Thank you
It now makes complete sense to me

[AllyCat]

Hi,

Basingstoke - Victory Roundabout: 51.266, -1.092
For a location like that you should use on the software: 512, -109 (always integers)

Shouldn't that be 512,  -10 , or rounded to the nearest integer   513, -11  ?

IMHO the easiest method to convert DMS to tenths of Degrees is to multiply the Degrees by 10 and add the number of Minutes divided by 6, i.e  D * 10 + M / 6.  The seconds can be ignored (too small to bother with).

The most common mistake is to forget the minus sign for the Western hemisphere, particularly for USA.

Cheers,  Alan.

[hornychz]

Hi,

Basingstoke - Victory Roundabout: 51.266, -1.092
For a location like that you should use on the software: 512, -109 (always integers)

Shouldn't that be 512,  -10 , or rounded to the nearest integer   513, -11  ?

 
In CZ we have a proverb: even a master carpenter is going to die! 
(This translation is very bad, but maybe it's a little bit ...)

[werk_ag]

Shouldn't that be 512,  -10 , or rounded to the nearest integer   513, -11  ?

Yes, it should! Thanks

garybb1, please correct the longitude value.