From: <ben...@ug...> - 2006-10-12 20:34:08
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Alex, to answer to your three questions: > Also, a few question on this: > 1. How does one enter degrees? > Do people have the degree sign on their keyboards? Apparently not all. the one I'm typing on now not. However, one can copy paste this data from a source easily. Lat/Lon have to be looked up somewhere anyhow. > 2. If not, should we customize the UI to have separate > fields for degrees, minutes, and seconds? In that case, > each of those could be a decimal number, right? Customizing the UI: I think not, the standard is becoming decimal notation. With python converting should be not more than a couple of lines of code, so why bother writing an UI to this specific input type? Some people already mentioned preferring to input data in decimal notation > 3. Should we have a tool to batch-convert between different > representation? And maybe a button to convert the single > instance? The tool might be interesting, to have one representation in the entire database after eg importing somene elses GEDCOM, ... I will have to write the convert function for googleearth anyway, so should not be too much extra work putting it in a tool. Question: is there a place/module (a file) to put such a general converter in? That would be def convertLatLon(Lat, Lon, type="D.D"): ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. |