Reading OPUS Solutions Report

Given that your coordinates are already in the right system, it is just a simple conversion between 2 syntaxes, no need to transform.

What type of syntax would you call it as it is now?

40 23 52.95955
80 11 24.19541

xx.xxxxxxxxxxx <- decimal degree (this is the one you need)
xx xx xx.xxxxx <- dms

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40 degrees 23 minutes 52.95955 second that is in DMS format. If you search online there are converters to change to decimal degrees. You do not just move the decimal place. In decimal that equals 40.39804 from this site Degrees,minutes,seconds to decimal degrees converter

Not sure how many decimal places they do so you may want to look at others out there.

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Thanks

7 or more decimals: Decimal degrees - Wikipedia.

there are also pages describing how to do it in MS Excel “automatically” once you enter the data.

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HP calculators can do the conversion easily as well as any other scientific calc. You can download EMU48 for android os, it has all the different HP calcs in the app including the HP50G. It’s a good app for lovers of the HP series calcs

d.d = d + m/60 +s.s/3600
40 + 23/60 + 52.95955/3600 = 40.398 044 319 444 4°

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Hi there,

Just want to sum up that ReachView 2 accepts only geographic coordinates in decimal degrees and ellipsoidal height as base coordinates.

Seth, as far as I remember from another thread, you work with NAD83(2011). OPUS provides them as well. So you just need to convert the OPUS solution to decimal degrees.

This is a win-win way to convert DMS format coordinates to decimal degrees :sweat_smile:

If d.d < 0 or negative, then: d.d = -(d + m/60 + s.s/3600)

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