Am 29.07.11 12:15, schrieb Durk Talsma:
> Hi,
>
> On 29 Jul 2011, at 02:54, HB-GRAL wrote:
>
>> Hi Geos
>>
>> Can someone explain me why we use
>>
>>      lat="N37 42.807"
>>      lon="W122 12.963"
>>
>> in parking.xml and groundnet.xml
>>
>
> This is mainly for historic reasons. I started out using an example ground 
> network file that was made using an editing tool that was originally created 
> to MSFS, if I recall correctly. FlightGear groundnet support was developed 
> from that example file, and the taxidraw export functions were in turn 
> developed from this as well.
>
> If you have a need to change that, please let me what and how you would like 
> this to be changed. We do need to keep some compatibility with the current 
> format, but I don't think that it's would be too hard to make flightgear 
> distinguish a two number format containing (NEWS keywords, vs a single 
> decimal floating point number). I would be open to changing that.
>
> cheers,

Hi Durk and Ron

Thanks for replying here. My problem is the precision when I convert 
this values to lat-lon. How does fgfs convert this values to lat lon and 
what is the precision you should get with this values ?

Thanks, Yves



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