label LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE AS DECIMAL DEGREES

[ron]

How might one go about labeling a point with latitude and longitude as decimal degrees instead of degrees minutes and seconds?

[Anonymous]

Settings tab of Toolspace -> Point -> Label Styles -> Label Style
Composer -> Layout Tab -> Text contents of Lat or Long -> Format -> [select
decimal here].

Bill

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How might one go about labeling a point with latitude and longitude as
decimal degrees instead of degrees minutes and seconds?

[ron]

Just realized I should have posted in the Land Desktop Group. But shouldnt it still be fairly the same procedure?
civil3d 2009 land desktop

[Anonymous]

Hi,

The Land Desktop method of defining labels is entirely different.

However, reporting Latitude and Longitude with decimal degrees would be
most unusual and I strongly suspect it would create confusion in the
users of the data.


Regards,


Laurie Comerford


ron@masurvey.net wrote:
> Just realized I should have posted in the Land Desktop Group. But shouldnt it still be fairly the same procedure?
> civil3d 2009 land desktop
>

[Anonymous]

..
> However, reporting Latitude and Longitude with decimal degrees would be
> most unusual and I strongly suspect it would create confusion in the
> users of the data.


I have to disagree here Laurie, in a civil design yes, but each day more and
more users of data are not using it in a civil design. Take the hobby
geocaching or the use of the sporting gps units for hunting/fishing etc.
Just about all of those user use DD over DMS. I get asked a lot by those
folks to convert the DMS points to DD.
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