converting latitude and longitude from meter to decimal format

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02-24-2013 08:43 AM
johnfred
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HI,
I have a large no of data i.e. latitude and longitude in meters format,(995866.8412), i want to convert them into decimal format(25.55941), is there any method which can do this conversion in bulk.
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VinceAngelo
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Unfortunately, this isn't really a trivial thing.  Data in meters must be in a projection.  You need
to know what the projection is, so you can de-project it into decimal degrees.  The conversion
itself is simple, but without knowing the source projection (and the target datum for the degrees,
if it's different from the datum used in the projection), there's literally no way to get there.

When you have the projection, you'll also need to tell us what GIS software you have available to
do the conversion.

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johnfred
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Projection name is Ain el Abd / UTM zone 38N, and currently we are not using any GIS software , we are receiving it the data in an excel sheet and then upload that excel sheet into a DB table , so while inserting in in the DB table we want to convert that data to decimal format.
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johnfred
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correction to my last post:

Base Geographic CRS: Ain el Abd

Projection: UTM zone 38N

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VinceAngelo
Esri Esteemed Contributor
I'm not aware of any way to execute deprojection without GIS software.

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