Date:         Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:55:42 -0400
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From:         "Colleen R. Cahill" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Question on form of coordinates
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As a map cataloger, I primarily deal with coordinates in two forms:
human-readable geographic coodinates (i.e. North 42 degrees, 15 minutes,
10 seconds) and machine-readable decimal degrees (i.e. N0421510). For the
proposed subject coodinates, a machine-readable form of coordinates is
needed and so I always think of decimal coordinates.  This is form a
standard used much?  Are there any other (better or worse) ways used to
present coordinates?

Thank you!
Colleen
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