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3.11 Entering Latitude/Longitude Points as Stops<br />

PC*MILER|Spreadsheets enables you to enter latitude/longitude points as stops<br />

on a route. These points can be entered in degrees minutes seconds format or<br />

decimal degrees (e.g. 0401750N,0742131W or 40.123N,100.333W).<br />

Degrees-minutes-seconds format:<br />

In degrees-minutes-seconds format the latitude and longitude are each 8 character<br />

strings in the following format:<br />

Characters 1-3 specify the degrees (be sure to include leading zero if required)<br />

Characters 4-5 specify the minutes<br />

Characters 6-7 specify the seconds<br />

Character 8 is either ‘N’, ‘n’, ‘W’, or ‘w’ with N’s for latitude and W’s<br />

for longitude<br />

Latitude and longitude must be separated by a comma WITHOUT A SPACE. In<br />

general the format for a point is: dddmmssN,dddmmssW.<br />

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