Converting decimal degrees to bearing and quadrant

DrewDowling

I'm working with the parcel fabric and it seems the database stores line bearings as decimal degrees. Has anybody had to use flex to convert from decimal degrees back to bearings and quadrants?

e.g. 109.4256 to S 70 34' 28" E

If anybody has had to do this already and has an actionscript function / formula or something similar they could give me that would be super.

Thanks for any help

DasaPaddock

Here's a class called DegToDMS.as that comes with the Viewer's Coordinate widget:

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package widgets.Coordinate
{

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/**
 * Utility class to pretty print decimal degree numbers.
 * @private
 */
public final class DegToDMS
{
    // Constants to define the format.
    public static const LAT:String = "lat";

    public static const LON:String = "lon";

    /**
     * Utility function to format a decimal degree number into a pretty string with degrees, minutes and seconds.
     * @param decDeg the decimal degree number.
     * @param decDir "lat" for a latitude number, "lon" for a longitude value.
     * @return A pretty print string with degrees, minutes and seconds.
     */
    public static function format(decDeg:Number, decDir:String):String
    {
        var d:Number = Math.abs(decDeg);
        var deg:Number = Math.floor(d);
        d = d - deg;
        var min:Number = Math.floor(d * 60);
        var av:Number = d - min / 60;
        var sec:Number = Math.floor(av * 60 * 60);
        if (sec == 60)
        {
            min++;
            sec = 0;
        }
        if (min == 60)
        {
            deg++;
            min = 0;
        }
        var smin:String = min < 10 ? "0" + min + "' " : min + "' ";
        var ssec:String = sec < 10 ? "0" + sec + "\" " : sec + "\" ";
        var sdir:String = (decDir == LAT) ? (decDeg < 0 ? "S" : "N") : (decDeg < 0 ? "W" : "E");
        return deg + "\xB0 " + smin + ssec + sdir;
    }
}

}