Topic: latitude and longitude settings in Image Salsa

[weathergirl]

I believe there is a certain way to calculate the latitude and longitude settings for Image Salsa. I had to reinstall the program, and can't remember how, and I know I read it on the Ambient forum some time ago. Would anyone know the calculation?

[jay_hoehn]

Ann-Marie,

The latitude and longitude just needs to be entered into Image Salsa.  File->Preferences.  I'm not sure what you mean by calculating the settings.

[weathergirl]

Hi Jay: I am sure there was a more involved way to calculate the latitude and longitude coordinates for Image Salsa, I know because I used this calculation before. Maybe I'm imagining it...?

[racenet]

Just enter them in Ann-Marie and you will be good to go. In all the years I've been running IS, I never remember hearing about anything special that needs to be done.




Bob

[kray1000]

I've never bothered to put the settings into ImageSalsa, only MovieSalsa.  But I don't use any sunrise/sunset tags in ImageSalsa either.

The formats do appear to be the same for ImageSalsa and MovieSalsa... whole number degrees in the first field; minutes and seconds in the second.  In the second field, the portion to the left of the decimal is the minutes; the portion to the right of the decimal is the number of seconds divided by 60.

My coordinates:
Latitude    37º 21' 13.3"
Longitude -79º 58' 41.6"

What I put into MovieSalsa:
Latitude   N  37º 21.2217'
Longitude W 79º 58.6933'

[gwwilk]

I'm too lazy to do this conversion manually.  Here is a site that converts your coordinates to the desired format:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html

[kray1000]

Unfortunately, the format used in IS/MS isn't strictly decimal or degrees/minutes/seconds, but a hybrid of the two; so that site won't help much, although it has been very useful for me for other purposes.

All you're really doing is using a calculator to divide the seconds by 60 and tacking the result on to the end of the minutes. 

I have a shortcut to the Windows calculator on my quick-launch toolbar so I can do calculations like this quickly.

[weathergirl]

All you're really doing is using a calculator to divide the seconds by 60 and tacking the result on to the end of the minutes

That's what I was thinking about, Kevin. Thanks, guys