Details
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Type:
New Feature
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Status:
Open
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Priority:
Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: 1.9
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: Database activity module
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Labels:None
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Affected Branches:MOODLE_19_STABLE
Description
In australia the teaching content for GPS is based on degrees, minutes second format of data entry. The existing style in Moodle is by decimal degrees.
Would it be possible to allow an option when setting up this field to allow to allow for the teacher to choose which format they wish entered and displayed.
On further thought, I am assuming the reason for entry by decimal is due to the ease at which this can be passed into other apps (like googlemaps, etc).
Could we not have a built in converter that would allow Moodle to convert data entered in ddmmss into decimal degrees.
To ensure data integrity we would then display three fields for the user to fill in rather than one. A field each for the degrees, minutes and seconds.
A demo of a web converter can be found here http://www.cosports.com/tools/gps_coords.htm