Getting started with geographical coordinates

[Graham Samuel]

A long way from me at 43°16′43″N 2°09′36″E <https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Raissac-sur-Lampy&params=43.2786_N_2.16_E_type:city(456)_region:FR-OCC> - and much higher (I’m about 130m). Sorry not to be quite so accurate!

Thanks

Graham 
> On 3 Apr 2020, at 22:28, Devin Asay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> Graham,
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> You get back lat and long in degrees and fractions of degrees, as a decimal numeral. For instance, I get latitude: 40.248676 and longitude: -111.651062, and for good measure altitude in meters at 1398.380493. Wow, now you all know exactly where I am!
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> Devin
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>> On Apr 3, 2020, at 1:49 PM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> This is cheeky but I can’t run up my mobile simulation today - can someone tell me the format of the geographical coordinates produced by mobileSensorReading et al. I mean, is say latitude just one integer showing seconds, or is it deg, min, sec - and are fractional seconds returned (so, floating point)? I shall find out for myself eventually but it would help a little to know now. AFAIKS there’s nothing in the LC documentation about it.
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>> Graham
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> Devin Asay
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