[atlas]Upgrades today

  On 11/10/10 9:07 AM, Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> 2. You can now set the probe's details (geolocation and description) using
>> the butting in the top right corner of the probe status page.
> I'm having a problem with that.  When I enter "Rozendaal", it only knows
> about this place in Zuid Holland, not the one where I live.  I then took
> out my GPS and copied the coordinates from there.  However, the GPS
> gives {N|S|E|W}degrees:minutes:seconds, how do I correctly enter that?
Use a calculator :-)

My GPS reports coordinates in this way:

     N52 22.366 E4 53.308

i.e. degrees and decimal minutes  (no seconds).

To convert that to true decimal degrees, as expected by atlas, you 
divide the minutes by 60 and add that to the degrees value. So the above 
becomes:

52 + 22.366/60 = 52.37277
4 + 53.308/60 = 4.88847

Those would be the numbers to enter in the page for the probe at/near 
this location  (leaving it as an excercise to the interested reader to 
find out where that is :)

-- Rene