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5.7.4 Entering Coordinate Values
This section covers how to enter Latitude and Longitude coordinates into Artemis
Manager when creating Mission files. Typically this is required when coordinates have
been obtained by a third-party or provided by a GPS system.
The common source of confusion when trying to enter coordinates is interpreting their
format and value compared to that Artemis Manager is currently using to display
coordinates.
However, it should be noted that regardless of how values are set to be
displayed, Artemis Manager will accept values in ANY of previously discussed
formats when creating mission files.
When the value has been entered, Artemis will then convert it and display it in
the currently required settings.
This means you can enter values as either just Degrees or Degrees & Minutes, while
the display setting is Degrees, Minutes and Seconds. Once the value has been entered
and accepted as valid it will be shown in the DMS format.
When entering coordinates as either Latitude or Longitudes, Artemis Manager expects
up-to three separate numbers to be entered for the value, separated by spaces.
The last of these numbers may have a decimal point and fractional part.
Any minus sign entered before the sets of numbers will make the value negative and
specify either the Southern or Western hemispheres.
Alternately, you may enter a “N”, “S”, “E” or “W” character after the values to specify
the hemisphere.
For example, all the following values represent the same location and may be entered
as Latitudes regardless of the current display format Artemis Manager is set to…

-54.241819
or
54.241819 S Degrees

-54 14.509
or
54 14.509 S Degrees & Minutes

-54 14 30
or
54 14 30 S Degrees, Minutes & Seconds

-54 14 30.547
or
54 14 30.547 S Degrees, Minutes, Seconds & Milliseconds
Any other letters, punctuation characters or number fields that you may enter will
either be ignored or result in a value of zero (0) if they corrupt the meaning of the
value.
This means that symbols for Degrees (°), Minutes (‘) and Seconds (“) can be optionally
used if values are being pasted in from another source, but are not critical as it is the
order of the fields (separated by spaces) that is important.