Latitude/Longitude arithmetic
planned
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Stephen Wheatcraft
It would be great to be able to do Latitude/Longitude arithmetic. For instance: 32 degrees 14 minutes 52 seconds + 18 degrees 11 minutes 33 seconds. All you need is plus and minus; I can't think of a reason that you would need multiplication or division. I am a programmer myself and once wrote a program to do this in Fortran (I know, old language!).
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Carsten Schlegel
And please give a way to make values absolute:
Runway = 89° | 89°
Downwind = Runway - 180° as absolute | 269°
89-180 was -91 + 360 = 269 and this value is needed when i convert it to an absolute degree.
The same if value > 360
Runway 27 = 272° | 272°
Downwind = Runway + 180° as absolute | 92°
272 + 180 = 452 - 360 = 92° (as absolute)
The absolute keyword (short: "abs") makes degrees between 0 and 360°
Other numeric numbers convert the keyword to positiv
-5 as absolute | 5
Combine with "number":
-5 Min to absolute number | 5
(or as number absolute)
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Stephen Wheatcraft
Great to hear !!
Zac @ Soulver
planned
This is coming
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Franz Storch
Zac @ Soulver will it be possible to do something like
A=32
B=20
C=41.244
N A° B‘ C“ | N 32° 20‘ 21.244“
Zac @ Soulver
Franz Storch: Yes
Zac @ Soulver
Merged in a post:
Native Support for Minute and Second of Arc
Jasper Lai
Would be great for arc minute (1/60)° and arc second (1/3600)° units to be recognised out of the box—even better if 0° 00′ 00″ notation was supported.
e.g.
32° 20′ 41.244″ in degrees
→ 32.34479°S
Stephen Wheatcraft
Also, forgot to mention: conversion between degrees/minutes/seconds to/from decimal degrees - probably the thing I do most with lat/long.
Jasper Lai
Stephen Wheatcraft: Great minds think alike!
Zac @ Soulver
under review
Thanks Stephen, interesting request.