Wasn't it Barry Hunter who wrote:
>
>------------------
> lonSign = lonSign = 1
>
> if(aLatLon[2]=="S"){
> latSign=-1;
> }
> if(aLatLon[5]=="W"){
> lonSign=-1;
> }
>
> var lat=latSign*(aLatLon[0]+(aLatLon[1]/60))
> var lon=lonSign*(aLatLon[3]+(aLatLon[4]/60))
>
>...
> map.setCenter(new GLatLng(parseFloat(lat), parseFloat(lon),true),5);
>------------------
>
>is how I would do it..
but aLatLon[0] is a String, so that forces the "+" to be considered to
be string concatenation rather than addition, and produces the wrong
result.
For example:
javascript:alert( -1 * ("35" +("27"/60)))
outputs -350.45 instead of 35.45.
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Mike Williams
http://econym.org.uk/gmap
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