[OSM-talk] Question about gps coordinates 001W0547 convert to -1.0547

[Marc Coevoet]

Frederik Ramm schreef:
> Hi
>
> Marc Coevoet wrote:
>> 004E4800,47N2000
>> 002W2300,57N0000
>> 001W0547,51N4823
>> 013E2600,47N3400
>> 013E2600,47N3400
>> 013E2600,47N3400
>> 013E2600,47N3400
>> 013E2500,47N3343
>>
>> to something where 001W0547  becomes -1.0547
>
> That can actually be done with sed on the Unix command line:
>
> % sed -e "s/\\([0-9]*\\)[WS]/-\\1./g; s/[EN]/./g; s/^0*//g; s/;0*//g; 
> s/-0*/-/g" < input.txt > output.txt
>
> But do check your input data to find out whether the stuff after the 
> letter is really fractions of degrees (if you find that you never have 
> the digits 6-9 following one of the letters but only 0-5 then that 
> would indicate you're dealing with minutes and seconds, which would 
> render above conversion invalid).
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>

Nice, I was thinking about looking for my shell prog book, and trying 
awk & some manips on the degrees and minutes, as there is no number > 59 
....

A larger sample:
005E5536,49N2426
006E0058,49N1948
005E5434,48N3934
006E0724,48N3948
006E0847,48N4638
006E0618,49N2150
006E1340,49N0523
006E0644,48N4140
005E5134,49N2738
006E1035,49N2034
006E0615,49N1839
006E0643,49N0210
006E0226,48N4131
006E1032,49N1202
006E0635,48N5533
006E0529,48N5140
005E4447,49N3102
006E0939,49N0650
006E0639,49N2421
006E1018,49N1700
009E2700,55N0200
009E2300,54N5900
009E4846,57N0925
009E4500,57N1100
009E4846,57N0925
006E1435,50N4644
006E1435,50N4644
006E1435,50N4644
006E1435,50N4644
006E1435,50N4644
006E1435,50N4644
006E0237,50N4446
006E0236,50N4444
006E0447,50N4707
006E0413,50N4717
017E0406,59N1336
014E5500,55N0500



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