Degrees to Minutes and Seconds Converter
Converts angular degrees to minutes and seconds for GIS, surveying, and educational audiences.

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About This Tool
This tool converts angular degrees into minutes and seconds for geographic coordinates, astronomy, and surveying workflows. It supports two input modes: decimal degrees and DMS components, producing a consistent DMS string and a signed decimal degree value. The conversion logic uses standard arithmetic to ensure accuracy and readability for geospatial datasets. Users benefit from precise formatting suitable for GIS imports, map annotations, and coordinate reporting. Core features include sign preservation, seconds precision control, and clear outputs for downstream processing. The tool scales from simple classroom exercises to professional data pipelines. It is designed for geographers, surveyors, cartographers, educators, and data engineers who require reliable angle representation across systems. The approach emphasizes transparency of calculations and deterministic formatting to avoid ambiguity in coordinate data.
This tool does not perform radiant-to-degree conversions or coordinate normalization; it focuses strictly on converting between decimal degrees and DMS representations and presenting results in both human readable and machine readable formats.
The output formats support integration with spreadsheets, GIS software, and database records, enabling consistent documentation of angular measurements in projects ranging from field surveys to celestial calculations.
How to Use
1. Provide inputs in decimal degrees or DMS components depending on the chosen mode.
2. Choose the input mode: decimal for decimal degrees; dms for degrees/minutes/seconds.
3. Optionally set seconds precision to control rounding (default is two decimals).
4. Run calculation to obtain the DMS string and decimal degree output.
5. Review outputs for accuracy and sign correctness before import into datasets.

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