I have a kmz file. There is a point in it. When I open the kml file with fme, the screenshot is attached where it converts the geographical latitude and longitude from degrees minutes to decimal. Additionally, degrees have been converted from minutes and seconds to decimals by Tubitak, the leading institution in Turkey. The screenshot is attached. Does anyone know the reason for the difference?
Because the value entered into Tubitak has rounding errors by only inputting Seconds to the second decimal place.
If enter the KML value without rounding error then will get the same value.
As an aside, the website is not needed to convert D’M’S’ to Decimal Degrees.
The formula is just Decimal Degrees = Degrees + Minutes/60 + Seconds/3600 and can be done in any Calculator/Spreadsheet. Similarly FME provides the same calculator as a Transformer with this conversion function.
