acknowledgements for ansi/nist-itl 1-2011 - NIST Visual Image ...

ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 - UPDATE 2013 DRAFT VERSIONreal number including decimals. If decimals are present, then minutes and secondsshall be empty. The allowed special characters are the negative sign and the period.Examples:• Buenos Aires, Argentina: -34 (with minutes LTM = 36)• NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland: 39.137627 (no LTM or LTS)• The third information item is latitude minute value / LTM. This is a value thatspecifies a minute of a degree. The value shall be between 0 (inclusive) to 60(exclusive). The minute value may be expressed as an integer (without a decimal) oras a real number including decimals. If decimals are present then seconds shall beempty. Thus, the allowed special character is a period. The minute value can beempty, even if the degree value is an integer. LTM and LGM are co-conditional, sothey shall both be present if either is present.• The fourth information item is the latitude second value / LTS. This is a value thatspecifies a second of a minute. The value shall be 0 (inclusive) to 60 (exclusive).Thus, the allowed special character is a period, [2013a>] since LTS may beexpressed as an integer (without a decimal) or as a real number including decimals[] since LGSmay be expressed as an integer (without a decimal) or as a real number includingdecimals [