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Claes Jaeger-Hansen has written a custom datalogger for the excersize. For Manual, description, executable and sourcecode follow the link
Here you can find help and hint to solve the assignment. Not everything is a wlakthrough, so you will have to think a it for yoourself!
Format in WGS84 | Converted to decimal degrees | ||
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latitude | longitude | latitude | longitude |
4842,716607 | 912,293844 | 48,71194346 | 9,2048974 |
Spreadsheet formulas | =(A3-4800)/60+48 | =(B3-900)/60+9 |
This function is in awk, but can be converted to other languages <sxh bash> function nmea2dd(nmeacoord){
dn=int(nmeacoord/100); return dn+((nmeacoord-(dn*100.0))/60)
} </sxh>
Start with the conversion to decimal degree!!
Convert with this software tool
Here you can find a description of the the conversion, along with a spreadsheet where all the formulas are implemented
Here is another tool where you can convert multiple coordinates online.