Coordinate Entry in MyDrive web version

PandyLegend

When entering coordinates in the web version of MyDrive, you have to use standard single and double quotes for minutes and seconds.

e.g. 46°54'12.2"N, 7°14'18.9"E

This is fine, and easy, when entering manually however if I want to copy-paste from another application, e.g. Furkot, where they use the prime and double prime (the correct format) for these coordinates it doesn't recognise it and I have to manually change the minutes and seconds.

e.g. 46°54′12.2″N, 7°14′18.9″E

Any chance this issue could be addressed? Should be simple fix.

YamFazMan

Hi
@PandyLegend
Decimal Co-ordinates to 5 decimal places seems to copy and paste to alright to the MyDrive Web Route planner

ATB YFM

PandyLegend

YamFazMan wrote:

Hi
Decimal Co-ordinates to 5 decimal places seems to copy and paste to alright to the MyDrive Web Route planner

I'm not referring to decimal coordinates.

YamFazMan

Hi
I know that... Just thought it might be helpfull

ATB YFM

Troggy53

@PandyLegend

I’m a numpty. And I’m interested to see an example of so called Prime and Double prime.
I thought the degrees, minutes, seconds was the “correct” notation.
Happy to learn.

YamFazMan

Hi
@Troggy53
See... Apostrophe v Prime & Quotation Mark v Double Prime
https://printingpartners.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/the-apostrophe-prime-acute-double-prime-and-quotation-mark/

ATB YFM

PandyLegend

@Troggy53
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)

Troggy53

Hi Guys
@YamFazMan @PandyLegend

Thanks for the urls. I tried to read those extracts in relation to the request above but they just defined a symbol, not how it is used for Lat Long notation. Did I miss something in them?
I tried web searches for the use of Prine notation for LatLong but didn’t turn one up. So I return to my request for an example. Perhaps using the ones in the original query ( which look identical to my old eyes.)
How does @PandyLegend want it to look like. (Ie how does it appear in the Furkot app.
Told you I was a numpty.

YamFazMan

Hi
@Troggy53
Back when I was a lad pre Decimal and pre Computers, when we actually wrote things down on paper, we also had feet and inches, the mathematical sign for feet was a Prime, the mathematical sign for inches was a Double Prime... Coordinates also use Prime and Double Prime for Minutes and Seconds

I suppose (Guess) the reason the Prime and the Apostrophe and the Double Prime and the Quotation Marks became more universal was to keep the Computer keyboard to reasonable a size, with manageable number of of keys....

ATB YFM

Troggy53

Oh I said I was a numpty and I was right. @YamFazMan
Thank you for your patience. Your comments above regarding Apostrophe vs Prime etc clarify the situation for me completely now.
I too am of the pre-computer age. In fact in college I learnt about thermionic valves and transistors before the first Integrated Circuits became commercially available.

@PandyLegend
I wish you well with the request. However having worked between business app users and a systems evelopment team there has to be a compelling need to satisfy the needs of many users for TomTom to spend time to amend their code as you wish. I suspect their stance will be “Ask Furkot to give the basic Keyboard characters format Apostrophe/Quotes etc so you ( and many other users ) can then easily copy and paste into TomTom and other SatNav / Mapping input fields.
As I said Good Luck.

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