Clarification on adding a dangerous area

[crash_continental]

Hi all,

I'm trying to add a dangerous area and need a little bit of clarification on the process. There seems to be descrepency between the FsP
Lat/Lon numbers and the ones you get in slew mode in FS2004. For instance:

In the Dangerous area .cfg the Eiffel Tower location is set as:
lat=48.8606;lon=2.2975
But in slew mode it comes in as:
lat=48 51.44;lon=2 17.75

(I'm also assuming that these co-ords mean North and East when positive, and South and West when negative)

Now the only thing I can figure is that FsP uses a percentage to calculate the second half of the numbers (ie; 51.44 is 86.06% of the
maximum value for this variable (in the lat=48.8606 part of the equation), although this seems unnecessarily complex to me. This would
be backed up by the fact that there is no N 48 86.06, as the 86 part would only go up to 59. So a bit confusing really

Can anyone help?

[DanSteph]

lon/lat are in decimal not minutes/second so for example 48.30 should be 48.50 and 48.51 is 48.86
you can see on this site the value in decimal are in "()" when you click on the map.

http://uk2.multimap.com/

Hope this help ?=

Dan

[crash_continental]

Thanks, that does help.