EOSS Upcoming Flights
-
04/27/2024 - 00:00 to 23:45
-
05/04/2024 - 00:00 to 23:45
-
05/18/2024 - 07:00 to 14:30
-
08/03/2024 - 00:00 to 23:45
-
10/19/2024 - 00:00 to 23:45
-
11/02/2024 - 00:00 to 23:45
-
11/09/2024 - 00:00 to 23:45
Latitude, Longitude Converter
This converter is actually part of Balloon Track. However, I often found myself needing a quick conversion. Loading BT for this was just a bit cumbersome, so I lifted the converter and made it a program in its own right.
Here's the main screen:
Enter latitude and longitude at the top and click the button corresponding to the output you wish to see.
It's simple right?
But the idea here is that you don't have to format the latitude and longitude a particular way when you input it. You can use any of the acceptable input formats below. Use one format for the latitude and another for the longitude. I tried to make this relatively smart so that I could just start typing whatever I heard on the radio, and the program would magically figure out what it all meant and convert it to the form I needed to work with.
If you click "Copy to Clipboard" the conversion will be dumped to your clipboard. It is formatted with a degree symbol ( � ) and a minute symbol ( ' ) and a second symbol ( " ). North is always positive, south is indicated by a negative number, NOT an "S". The same for longitude. The latitude appears on the first line of the clipped text, the longitude on the next line. The above conversion dumped to the clipboard and then pasted into this web page looks like this:
39.7801�
-104.989433�
You can click in any of the output fields and copy information. So, if you entered degrees, minutes and seconds and converted to decimal degrees, you could copy each figure as a pure number with no symbols and then dump the clipboard of that number into another program.
And here are the acceptable input formats:
Download latlongconvert101.zip (248 KBytes) Full Install
This file includes all necessary components for the program with the exception of the visual basic 6 service pack 5 runtime files. A link to those files is located below.
Download latlongconvert101Lite.zip (13 KBytes)
If you have downloaded the full install of LatLongConvert version 1.0.0 or later, you can just download this EXE file and replace the original Program with it. You already have all the associated files that come in a Full Install. If you have a current version of Balloon Track then you may be able to just download the lite version and drop it into any folder you want to store and run it from.
Visual Basic Run Time Files
If you don't have the Visual Basic V 6.0 runtime files then download a copy of Vbrun60sp5.exe.