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<DIV><SPAN class=496041822-25122005><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Gudday</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496041822-25122005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Working on a PERL to
MySQL perl script for an Australian Experimantal Data Store</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496041822-25122005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have got most of
it working, in that I have callsigns and positions.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496041822-25122005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am getting the
impression different systems use different co-ordinate
formats.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496041822-25122005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am assuming from
what I have seen that the degrees always stays the
same.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496041822-25122005><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is the bit after
the decimal point that changes.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496041822-25122005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I seem to have ended
up with positions from the APRS stream in the format of deg minutes and seconds
???</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496041822-25122005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wondering if there
is some perl code floating around that converts deg min seconds to dec degrees
?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=496041822-25122005><FONT face=Arial size=2>My main use for this
is google earth. Which seems to want decimal degrees.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>-----------------------------------------<BR>Andrew
Rich - VK4TEC<BR></FONT><A href="mailto:vk4tec@tech-software.net"><FONT
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