Hi I have a legacy db with some positional data. The fields are just text fields with strings like this 0°25'30"S, 91°7'W
. Is there some way I can convert these to two floating point numbers for Decimal Latitude
and Decimal Longitude
?
EDIT:
So an example would be: 0°25'30"S, 91°7'W
-> 0.425
, 91.116667
where the original single field position yields two floats.
Any help much appreciated.
This approach can deal with seconds and minutes being absent, and I think handles the compass directions correctly:
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
def conversion(old):
direction = {'N':1, 'S':-1, 'E': 1, 'W':-1}
new = old.replace(u'°',' ').replace('\'',' ').replace('"',' ')
new = new.split()
new_dir = new.pop()
new.extend([0,0,0])
return (int(new[0])+int(new[1])/60.0+int(new[2])/3600.0) * direction[new_dir]
lat, lon = u'''0°25'30"S, 91°7'W'''.split(', ')
print conversion(lat), conversion(lon)
#Output:
0.425 91.1166666667
This converts your input string to your expected output. It can handle minutes and seconds not being present.
Currently, it does not account for North/South, East/West. If you'll tell me how you'd like those handled, I'll update the answer.
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
import re
PATTERN = re.compile(r"""(?P<lat_deg>\d+)° # Latitude Degrees
(?:(?P<lat_min>\d+)')? # Latitude Minutes (Optional)
(?:(?P<lat_sec>\d+)")? # Latitude Seconds (Optional)
(?P<north_south>[NS]) # North or South
,[ ]
(?P<lon_deg>\d+)° # Longitude Degrees
(?:(?P<lon_min>\d+)')? # Longitude Minutes (Optional)
(?:(?P<lon_sec>\d+)")? # Longitude Seconds (Optional)
(?P<east_west>[EW]) # East or West
""", re.VERBOSE)
LAT_FIELDS = ("lat_deg", "lat_min", "lat_sec")
LON_FIELDS = ("lon_deg", "lon_min", "lon_sec")
def parse_dms_string(s, out_type=float):
"""
Convert a string of the following form to a tuple of out_type latitude, longitude.
Example input:
0°25'30"S, 91°7'W
"""
values = PATTERN.match(s).groupdict()
return tuple(sum(out_type(values[field] or 0) / out_type(60 ** idx) for idx, field in enumerate(field_names)) for field_names in (LAT_FIELDS, LON_FIELDS))
INPUT = """0°25'30"S, 91°7'W"""
print parse_dms_string(INPUT) # Prints: (0.42500000000000004, 91.11666666666666)
A simple approach (given that I taught myself about regular expressions just today because of this problem). Deals with missing fields and compass directions.
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
import re
s = """0°25'30"S, 91°7'W"""
def compLat_Long(degs, mins, secs, comp_dir):
return (degs + (mins / 60) + (secs / 3600)) * comp_dir
def extract_DegMinSec(data):
m = re.search(r'(\d+°)*(\d+\')*(\d+")*', data.strip())
deg, mins, secs = [0.0 if m.group(i) is None else float(m.group(i)[:-1]) for i in range(1, 4)]
comp_dir = 1 if data[-1] in ('W', 'S') else -1
return deg, mins, secs, comp_dir
s1, s2 = s.split(',')
dms1 = extract_DegMinSec(s1)
dms2 = extract_DegMinSec(s2)
print('{:7.4f} {:7.4f}'.format(compLat_Long(*dms1), compLat_Long(*dms2)))
yields
0.4250 91.1167