private long [ ] [ ] getLatitude ( String lat ) { float secs = Float . parseFloat ( "0" + lat . substring ( 4 ) ) * 60.f ; long nom = ( long ) ( secs * 1000 ) ; long [ ] [ ] latl = new long [ ] [ ] { { Long . parseLong ( lat . substring ( 0 , 2 ) ) , 1 } , { Long . parseLong ( lat . substring ( 2 , 4 ) ) , 1 } , { nom , 1000 } } ; return latl ; }
assumes the the format is HHMM . MMMM