Question

WGS84 format for float from a string.

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
February 18, 2013
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fmelizard
Safer

I have some exif GPS data that I want to plot points for. These are strings:

jpeg_exif_gpslatitude (54) (59.0226) (0)

jpeg_exif_gpslongitude (1) (44.0662) (0)

My problem is - how do I get these into a format 2d point adder will use? I can easily strip the brackets, but then its still a string and I get this:

2013-02-18 17:01:35| 0.6| 0.0|ERROR |2DPointAdder: @Tcl2 -- failed to evaluate expression `FME_Coordinates addCoord {1 44.0662 0} {54 59.0226 0}' -- String value `1 44.0662 0' contains invalid characters and could not be converted into a float

Thanks.

Note: Sorry about the colour etc. That's what happens when you copy/past it seems and there's no "reset" button.

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owen
Forum|Forum|12 years ago
February 18, 2013

Hi Jonathan,

I had to do this recently. You need an attributesplitter to split the degrees, minutes & seconds into sepreate fields, then use an expression evaluator to conver to decimal degrees.

More info here http://fmepedia.safe.com/articles/Samples_and_Demos/DMS-to-Decimal-Degrees-Workspace

Owen

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fmelizard
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Forum|Forum|12 years ago
February 18, 2013

Hey Owen, much appreciated, that worked a treat. Well, except the few seconds where I wondered why I was in the North Sea. Must remember west is negative. ;-)

Cheers,

Jonathan