GPS coordinate problem
I have coordinates for a travel site in the WGS84 format:
6413180-2059501
The location is supposed be a cave in Iceland but Google Maps points(after adding a decimal point) to a site in Sweden.
What am I doing wrong?
Best Answer
Firstly, WGS84 is a considerably different format to regular Lat/Long coordinates.
Indeed, from a question on Stackoverflow, looking at the code to convert (if you were a programmer), it's quite a complex operation:
$lon = ($lon / 20037508.34) * 180;
$lat = ($lat / 20037508.34) * 180;
$lat = 180/M_PI * (2 * atan(exp($lat * M_PI / 180)) - M_PI / 2);
simply adding a decimal place isn't going to do it.
Running -2059501 through the LON calcuation, we get:
-18.5008
which certainly lines up with Iceland. However, I cannot manage to get any calculator here to do the second calculation - if someone else can help out?
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