It is designed to convert the two different and distinct methods of co-ordinate nomenclature from one methodology to the other, and to calculate the distance between two sets of coordinates. Due to the fact that GPS information is so readily available now for daily weather information, automotive use, aviation, marine and personal use, many. GPS Coordinates Converter is a tool to convert gps coordinates to address and convert address to lat long. You can use the lat long converter to locate an address, latitude and longitude on a map for navigation purposely or if your gps navigation system is giving you a lat long and you need to convert it to address.

• Gps Coordinate Conversion Formula Calculator
• Gps Coordinate Conversion Formula Calculator

ExpertGPS isn't just a mapping tool and a GPS data manager, it's a powerful coordinate converter that can instantly convert between any coordinate format or datum. Whether you need to convert lat/lon coordinates to UTM or US state plane coordinates, convert NAD27 data to NAD83 or WGS84 datum, or reproject shapefile data to match the native projection of your GIS imagery or layers, ExpertGPS can accomplish the task - quickly, easily, and accurately.

The Home Edition of ExpertGPS supports dozens of geographic coordinate formats, and dozens of datums. ExpertGPS Pro was designed for professional users who work with GIS shapefiles and CAD DXF drawings, or who need to convert US State Plane Coordinates.

ExpertGPS converts to and from any coordinate format or grid:

• latitude/longitude
  • decimal degrees
  • degrees and minutes (deg min.min / DMM)
  • degrees, minutes, and seconds (deg min sec / DMS)
• Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)
• US State Plane Coordinates (requires ExpertGPS Pro)
• US National Grid (ideal for first responders and emergency personnel)
• Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)
• British National Grid (BNG) and Irish Grid
• Canada Grids (ATS, CSRS)
• Australia Grids (VICGRID, GDA, AGD)
• plus dozens more national grids and coordinate systems, for every country on Earth

ExpertGPS converts to and from any GPS or map datum:

• WGS84 and WGS74
• NAD83 and NAD27
• ETRF 1989, Ordnance Survey 1936 and European 1950
• and hundreds of other datums used in Canada, Australia, Europe, and throughout the world

How to Convert Coordinates using ExpertGPS

Step 1: Configure your input and output coordinate formats

To add a coordinate format in ExpertGPS, click Preferences on the Edit menu, and click on the My Coordinate Formats tab. Click Add. The Add Coordinate Format dialog will appear. On the left is an expandable list of all of the continents, countries, and US states. As you expand the location tree, ExpertGPS will show the coordinate formats used in that region on the right side of the dialog. Drill-down in the location side as far as you need to go to see the coordinate format for your location. Select the coordinate format, and then choose the appropriate datum from the list below.

Step 2: Add or import your data

You can add waypoints by hand, draw waypoints or tracks on the map, receive data from your GPS, or import it into ExpertGPS from KML, CSV, a shapefile, CAD drawing, or other mapping format.

Step 3: Select your output coordinate format

As soon as you switch to your output coordinate format by selecting it from the My Coordinate Formats list, ExpertGPS will reproject all of your data to the new format and datum. Your data is converted, and ready for use. You can export it to another mapping, CAD, or GIS program, or copy and paste it into Excel.

Three easy steps, and your coordinates have been converted

ExpertGPS makes coordinate conversion quick, easy, and accurate

Solutions to Common Coordinate Conversion Problems

Most problems involving GPS and map coordinate mis-matches are due to choosing the incorrect coordinate format and datum at some point in the process. If you are entering GPS coordinates by hand into ExpertGPS from a book or a Web page, you need to ensure that you've selected the same coordinate format and datum that the source's author used, or position errors will occur.

There are four main types of coordinate formats used throughout the world today: lat/lon, UTM, US State Plane, and National Grids.

Lat/lon coordinates:

There are three different ways to express latitude and longitude:
1. decimal degrees. (42.12345ºN, -71.23456ºW) Note that there are no spaces in these coordinates.
2. degrees and minutes (42º 23.456'N, -71º 43.632'W) Marine, aviation, and geocaching coordinates are usually given in deg min.min format. Note that there is a space between the degrees (º) and the minutes (') part of the coordinates.
3. degrees, minutes, and seconds. (42º 34' 54.234'N, -71º 24' 14.234'W) Civil survey and some marine waypoints are given in this format. Note that there are three parts to each coordinate, separated by spaces, and that three symbols are used to show the degrees, minutes, and seconds (º ' ').

UTM coordinates

Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates are used worldwide. Unlike lat/lon, which is a spherical coordinate system based on angles, UTM, state plane, and national grid coordinates are rectangular grid systems where coordinates are expressed as Northings and Eastings from a fixed reference point. Rectangular grids make it much easier to calculate distances and to plot locations on a rectangular map. UTM coordinates look like this: 2346212N, 12343523E, 18T. The first value is the Northing. The second is the Easting. The third value (always a number between 1 and 60 followed by a single letter) is the UTM zone identifier. If your data is in UTM coordinates, it is very likely in NAD27 datum or WGS84 datum (see below). The vast majority of UTM data is expressed in meters. If you are using UTM data collected prior to 1983 by a US state entity, there's a chance that it uses US Survey Feet rather than meters as the base unit. ExpertGPS Pro provides an option for UTM coordinates in feet.

US State Plane Coordinates

Almost all of the data available from US state government Web sites is expressed in the US State Plane Coordinate System. US SPCS coordinates have two values, a Northing and an Easting. Some US states have only a single SPCS zone. Other states have a handful, broken down by county. You'll need to know which zone is in use, and select the correct one in ExpertGPS Pro. This Web page lists the counties in every US state, and the appropriate SPCS zone to use:
Converting and Using US State Plane Coordinates with ExpertGPS Pro

National Grids

Outside of the United States, many countries have their own National Grid coordinate systems. Many of these use the same Northing, Easting format described above. ExpertGPS lists the national grids for each country in the Add Coordinate Format dialog.

Gps Coordinate Conversion Formula Calculator

To add a coordinate format in ExpertGPS, click Preferences on the Edit menu, and click on the My Coordinate Formats tab. Click Add. The Add Coordinate Format dialog will appear. On the left is an expandable list of all of the continents, countries, and US states. As you expand the location tree, ExpertGPS will show the coordinate formats used in that region on the right side of the dialog. Drill-down in the location side as far as you need to go to see the coordinate format for your location. Select the coordinate format, and then choose the appropriate datum from the list below.

In the United States, you have two main datum choices: NAD27, and NAD83/WGS84. NAD27 was used from 1927 up until 1983, when it was replaced by NAD83 and WGS84. You can consider NAD83 and WGS84 to be identical in the 50 United States.

For other areas of the world, ExpertGPS will display the datums used in that region. Select the correct datum from the list.

Gps Coordinate Conversion Formula Calculator

You can add many different coordinate formats to ExpertGPS, and switch between them at any time to enter data or convert data to another format. ExpertGPS Pro users should keep in mind that the currently-active coordinate format is used whenever you import and export data.

Help with Coordinate and Datum Conversion

For more information on datums and coordinate formats in ExpertGPS, visit these Web pages:

Please enter the degrees, minutes, seconds (DMS) coordinates values to convert to decimal degrees (dd).

About DMS to Decimal Degrees

You can convert degrees, minutes, seconds for both latitude and longitude to decimal degrees.Simply enter the DMS values for lat or both lat and long, than press the convert button. The decimal degrees coordinates will be calculated and displayed below the form.

How to Convert Degrees Minutes Seconds to Decimal Degrees

First of all let's take a look at the symbols:
° : degree
' : minute
' : second

1 minute is equal to 60 seconds.
1 degree is equal to 1 hour, that is equal to 60 minutes or 3600 seconds.

To calculate decimal degrees, we use the DMS to decimal degree formula below:
Decimal Degrees = degrees + (minutes/60) + (seconds/3600)

Wonder to learn how to type a degree symbol? visit Degree Symbol.

Recent Comments

After hassling to look for a converter online I just noticed you had all the details here. Nice work!!

Nice implementation, thanks. Adding the formulas is very useful. Entering decimal values in Google Maps works, entering Hours, Minutes and seconds did not work. Using the symbols may be tricky: is seconds the quote sign ' or is it two apostrophes ' ?
I got an error message when I entered the seconds for Longitude with three decimals. When I removed the decimals, it worked. No problem with Latitude.
Reading the comments below, I see that other people had the same problem long ago. Someone at Latlong.net needs to update this website. Many good suggestions were made.

The inability to enter fractional seconds in the longitudinal input has caused me to be in error by 29.11514045 feet. That is considered unacceptable in my calculations. But thank you for a excellent starting point for further calculations.

It does work in Degrees Minutes and Seconds in Google maps as long as you put the direction S or N for Latitude at the end of the coordinate or E or W for Longitude.

Thank you so much for this formula

Thank you, it was helpful.

Very useful converter, thank you!

I would find it useful, if decimal minutes were accepted, as degrees and deciml minutes is a common (and absurd!) format.
(As for decimal degrees and decimal seconds, why not?)

How to account for negative values less than 1 degree (e.g. 0, 0, -.1)?

Very useful, I like it :)

formula really help me out to convert coordinates to decimal degree. Now /i am strugle on how to add negative sign to X coordinates

Why doesn't this generate a link to google maps?

Very much needful . Thanks

Its help me to enter the location of our school in our U-DISE+ portal.Thanks.

I use this tool almost daily, thanks!

Do you have an app that when my phone finds my GPS location it gives me the lat and long in 8 decimal places without using the converter?

Should be able to enter decimal seconds for longitude.

Your input field is broken for longitude seconds, it is missing the HTML attribute: step='0.0000001'.

i have units in this way like E: 285 767.580 N: 3 123 492.940.
I dont know how to convert this and i dont know this coordinate system

what could be the time in Lagos state at longitude 18 east when the time is 5:00pm in Ethiopia at longitude 45 east?

Please be aware the actual conversion numbers are accurate, but there is NO allowance for : EAST,west , NORTH, south -values here.
So to be accurate you may need to know when to apply a '-' minus sign in front of the decimal values. You need to know the general area where you are looking for. I ended up in China, where a Canadian address was intended ! other than that. It 's great ! DK.

The degree symbol is a small circle ( ° ) that is used to indicate the width of an angle or the value of a temperature .degree symbol
The uses of the degree symbol are as follows:
if placed after a natural number or a decimal number between 0 and 360 it indicates the width of an angle expressed in sexagesimal degrees .
In particular 0
(or better 0) is the width of a null angle , 90 ° the width of a right angle , 180 ° the width of a flat angle and with 360 ° the width of a corner angle .
If the degree symbol is followed by the letter C (° C) or the letter F (° F) then it indicates a temperature , expressed respectively in degrees centigrade and degrees Fahrenheit .
Recall that for the kelvin unit of measurement (symbol K) it is the only unit of measurement of temperature that does not require the symbol of degrees.

Please help me. I'm stuck with these 7 figure easting and northing coordinates and im failing to convert them into the appropriate directions.
I got theme from an old mining research paper. As a clue I know for a fact it's in my country[zimbabwe] . Problem is I dnt know where to put the degrees and minutes and all. Please help.
Easting ~ 0461328
Northing ~ 7972981
Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated

Very much needful...Thanks..

i COULD HAVE DONE THIS MYSELF, BUT YOU SAVED ME A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

How many km in 1 degree

Does not taken into account of E/W and N/S. As this can make a big difference when converted it need a to add

Is there anyway to convert 315 degrees nnw into lat and long cordinance

315º (NNW) is a heading not a coordinate, so it doesn't have a fixed position and therefore no lat/long coordinates can be given.

How can I convert a GPS format like N:856021.47, E:881612.07, to DD?

How can i convert21°00'00.000'00.0'N 78°'E to kilometers

useless for me: the minutes do not accept partial values (as given by nmea sentence GGA)

useless for me as I can't cut and paste the lat and lon values separately, for some reason copy is prevented, and on the URL again can't copy part.