How do i figure out the degrees, minutes, and seconds once i have the latitude & longitude?

I wanted to know the latitude longitude for the location where i was born, so i figured it out using google maps. It gave me the following info: 34.061957,-118.212011. It's not in the 00掳 00' 00.00" form... How do i get that? Is there a formula or something?How do i figure out the degrees, minutes, and seconds once i have the latitude %26amp; longitude?
Lat/Long can be expressed in either format -- decimal degrees or minutes seconds. On Google Earth you can ask for which expression you want. I'm not positive on Google Maps. To convert you can use a calculator like http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMM鈥?/a> or you can do it yourself.



The minutes seconds variation is just like a clock. For example 15 minutes is 0.25 hours. In your example, 34 is the hours. 0.061957*60=3.71742, 3 is your minutes. 0.71742*60=43.0452 is the seconds.How do i figure out the degrees, minutes, and seconds once i have the latitude %26amp; longitude?
Actually it is in the correct form. It is simply written different. It is also more complete as it expands on the seconds by including 2 decimal spots for exact and precise locating.





34.061957 is the same as 34 degrees latitude, 06 minutes, 19.57 seconds.

118.212011 is 118 degrees longitude, 21 minutes, 20.11 seconds.



Don't confuse these minutes and seconds with time measurements, for instance the 34 or 118 are not hours, they are, as you know, degrees of latitude and longitude. These degrees are then broken down into 60 equal parts, or minutes, and the minutes are divided into 60 equal parts again, or seconds. Then when the 2 extra digits are added to the number of seconds, it is broken down into 100 equal parts. As you can guess, this is an extremely small area.



I can send you information on how the world is divided up into latitudes and longitudes, if you wish, but it is too long for this forum. Just e-mail me.



Take the Google results as a way to be very, very accurate. Actually if you wanted to, one could also take the decimal point in seconds of degrees to any placement, let's say if you wanted to know exactly where a paperclip was located on a sheet of paper, and not just the location of the paperclip, but perhaps the top part of the paperclip, as you look at it. Why you would need this, would be any-ones guess.



:)How do i figure out the degrees, minutes, and seconds once i have the latitude %26amp; longitude?
I thought that the numbers google maps use is only for google maps so that you can copy down the number and go back to it by putting in that number