Latitude & Longitude Format

SailBlogs expects all postions to be entered in the form of degrees with decimal minutes. This is typical of the way most GPS devices display the location.

EXAMPLE (Key West, FL):

24 36.0'N
81 36.0'W

In the example for latitude:

• The degrees are 24, and the minutes are 36.0.
• The are no seconds.
• The ' mark for minutes is optional.
• A direction indicator (N, S, E, W) is required.
• Minutes can have up to 4 decimal places.