Latitude and Longitude coordinates are often presented in degrees, minutes, and seconds, such as 39° 45' 30" (39 degrees, 45 minutes, 30 seconds). So i decided to build a degree converter to help convert it to decimal degree.
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, I made use of the DMS to decimal degree formula below: Decimal Degrees = degrees + (minutes/60) + (seconds/3600)
DD = d + (min/60) + (sec/3600)