Message posted by Joerg (Webmaster) on November 04, 2010 at 14:38:35 PST:

Take the seconds (39.86 in your example), divide by 60, add the minutes (51) and divide by 60 again and add the degrees (34). Voila, there's your decimal degrees: 34.861072. Same goes for the longitude. North and east are positive, south and west negative. I hope that helps. BTW: In many programs, such as Google Earth, you can just switch the coordinates to whatever format you need in the Options or Settings.

In Reply to: Google Maps and Lat Long posted by Brian Liddicoat on November 04, 2010 at 6:14:32 PST:

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