This video demonstrates how to convert an angular measurement in degrees-minutes-seconds DMS hyphenated format to other formats, including decimal degrees D.d and the format required for Civil 3D, D.mmss format. This video also shows you how to get back to a hyphenated DMS format or D.mmss format once you have used the decimal degrees to do calculations in Excel.
Duration 16 minutes, 8 seconds
It was created by Su Leone, M.S.Ed. for the Advanced Surveying course at Wake Technical Community College. For more information on this course or the Geomatics Technology A.A.S. degree program, please visit http://geomatics.waketech.edu