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Re: 19990917: UDUNITS



Deirdre,

> To: address@hidden
> From: Deirdre Byrne <address@hidden>
> Subject: UDUNITS
> Organization: School of Marine Sciences, U. of Maine
> Keywords: 199909171729.LAA20807

In the above message, you wrote:

> I do not see any supported geographic units (e.g., degrees longitude or
> latitude) apart from the nautical mile.  Is this indeed the case?

Latitude and longitude are physical quantities that are, typically,
specified in units of degrees.  The UDUNITS database contains the unit
"degree".

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>