I never saw anything but DMS used in machine shops to set up a precision angle on a job or machine tool. My old and my near new vernier protractor both use DMS.
I have a formula to convert the digital readouts from your phone or google to conventional degrees, minutes, seconds.
Just can't find it at the moment but will put it up here tomorrow.
Unless someone beats me to it.
I never saw anything but DMS used in machine shops to set up a precision angle on a job or machine tool. My old and my near new vernier protractor both use DMS.
URSUSMAJOR
I use UTM. Much easier and accurate
Cheers
Slunnie
~ Discovery II Td5 ~ Discovery 3dr V8 ~ Series IIa 6cyl ute ~ Series II V8 ute ~
Degrees minutes and seconds work for marine use. When the first gps started getting used in vehicles they had DMS as they came from marine.
but if you compare working out where you are/need to be on a land based map between DMS and UTM, once you know how to do UTM you wouldn’t go back, it’s so easy.
Sometimes we we get stuck with what we know, and can’t see that moving forward is 5e way to go.
Just my opinion.
Charlie
yes, it works all ways.
In my role in marine rescue if a person gives us co-ordinates from their phone, our bookwork necessitates us to convert it to DMS for conventional mapping, however if we put their co-ordinates into our phone it shows us exactly where they are and we can proceed to their rescue. When we return we still have to convert for Marine standards paperwork.
When I was crayfishing everything was in DMS But even back in the seventies in the Army it was all Mills.
It's pretty easy to get your head around either it all depends which map or mapping software you are using at the time
Interestingly the Hema paper maps and the Hema Explorer software I have are in DMS.
You only get one shot at life, Aim well
2004 D2 "S" V8 auto, with a few Mods gone
2007 79 Series Landcruiser V8 Ute, With a few Mods.
4.6m Quintrex boat
20' Jayco Expanda caravan gone
My Google earth has DMS and decimals of seconds.
I was educated in DMS but was also educated to learn and use the language of whatever ship I was on.
The land is a ship that travels at 2'' a year.
I'd be much happier if the land was charted with Mercator Charts though.
Cheers, Billy.
Keeping it simple is complicated.
'97 Tdi 300
5sp manual w/ D-gas, Maxi Drive rear, 245/75/16 rubber, dual batteries, other stuff.
UTM is fine for absolute referencing but not much good for course plotting, for that you need a relative bearing. Cardinal points don't cut it, so you have to use degrees. And for anything less than one degree you need to use either minutes and seconds or decimal degrees...
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