http://norman.walsh.name/2005/09/27/monkeyCache 8 124 2005-09-27T13:06:32+01:00 $Date: 2006-05-01 07:08:23 -0400 (Mon, 01 May 2006) $ Norman Walsh 2005 Norman Walsh My first GreaseMonkey script provides decimal degrees for cache locations. [Update: now to five decimal places.] The cache pages at geocaching.com provide latitudes and longitudes in degrees and minutes (e.g., “N 42° 17.853”). I find that I often want to convert those coordinates into decimal degrees (e.g., “42.2975”) to plot them together on maps, to calculate distances between them, etc. I did it by hand a number of times before I discovered that the easiest way is to peek into the mapping URIs further down on the cache page. But that's still a little bit inconvenient, and isn't this exactly what Greasemonkey is for? Given that I've started to feel a little left out as I haven't written any fancy DHTML interfaces or jumped on the Ajax bandwagon to write the all-singing, all-dancing interactive DocBook web site, I thought that writing some Greasemonkey code would make me feel a little more relevant. I was right. And now I have a script that adds decimal degrees to the pages in question. See? It's probably embarrassingly bad JavaScript coding, but that's what you get for a lunch break exercise at a working group meeting. Improvements accepted. [Update 1 May 2006: Carl's right, four decimal places wasn't really enough. I've updated the script to provide five, padded with zeros if necessary.]