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Decimal degrees
Decimal degrees (dd) are often used in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), web-mapping applications such as Google Maps, and GPS devices to express latitude and longitude coordinates, rather than expressing geographic coordinates with degrees, minutes, and seconds (dms).
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