prettyPosition: Pretty Longitude/Latitude in Degree-Minute-Second Format

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Pretty Longitude/Latitude in Degree-Minute-Second Format

Description

Round a geographical positions in degrees, minutes, and seconds Depending on the range of values in x, rounding is done to degrees, half-degrees, minutes, etc.

Usage

prettyPosition(x, debug = getOption("oceDebug"))

Arguments

x	a series of one or more values of a latitude or longitude, in decimal degrees
debug	set to a positive value to get debugging information during processing.

Value

A vector of numbers that will yield good axis labels if formatPosition() is used.

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

Examples

library(oce)
formatPosition(prettyPosition(10 + 1:10 / 60 + 2.8 / 3600))

oce documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 7:09 p.m.