This makes DD different and recognizable and, since this format can be represented by a simple pair of Float values, a great choice for IT/software applications.Īlthough DCS does not support DD latlong coordinates, this format is widely used and common.ĭMS sounds like a combination of the two: it uses Degrees, followed by Minutes and Decimal of minutes, rather than seconds.
#Convert air navigation notation plus#
45☄5’32.4″N 009☂3’39.9″E).ĭecimal Degrees are a very simple way to represent coordinates.ĭD coordinates can be obtained from DMS by:ĭD uses mathematical operators, plus and minus, to indicate the offset from the common references (e.g. If you are wondering what time units of measures do in this discussion, have a look here.ĭMS use North/South, East/West explicitly to indicate the direction of the offset from Greenwich and the Equator (e.g. The following are three common means of representing latitude and longitude.Ĭlassic representation of latlong coordinates, pretty much understandable by everyone. Latitude and Longitude, being references on a sphere (not a proper sphere, but let’s keep this simple) are the offset in degrees from a common reference meridian and parallel. If precision ordnance guided by means of GPS is employed, we better make sure that the target location is instead very accurate. This is not always a priority: a waypoint in the F-14 flight plan can be slightly more to the North or the East than its precise original location with little negative effects. Latitude and Longitude can be represented in different ways and players should make sure that a common format is used. In DCS, the simplest and most common way to define them is by means of latlongs, short for Latitude and Longitude, as they are cross-faction (imperial vs metric, east vs west), cross-module and they should sound familiar already.īy using latitude and longitude, for example, a Ka-50 FAC/A can share the location of a target with an A-10C although they have very little in common (no datalink, different system of measurement, etc). The position of an object, a target or a waypoint on the planet can be represented in many ways. NATO MGRS), I may cover them in the future. For this reason more advanced means of representing positions are omitted in this article (e.g. The goal is introducing some fundamental topics in, hopefully, a simple and concise way. This article is aimed mostly to new players.
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