oce (version 0.9-18)

prettyPosition: Pretty lat/lon in deg, min, sec

Description

Round a geographical positions in degrees, minutes, and seconds

Usage

prettyPosition(x, debug=getOption("oceDebug"))

Arguments

x

a series of one or more values of a latitude or longitude, in decimal degrees

debug

set to a positive value to get debugging information during processing.

Value

• A vector of numbers that will yield good axis labels if formatPosition is used.

Details

Depending on the range of values in x, rounding is done to degrees, half-degrees, minutes, etc.

Examples

library(oce)
formatPosition(prettyPosition(10+1:10/60+2.8/3600))