Video caption GPS coordinates on Mavic Air 2 aren't real GPS coords
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On my Mavic Air 2 I turned on video captioning but the GPS coordinates that I get out of the system are not real GPS coordinates. Here is a sample of what I get:

[latitude: 0.718035] [longtitude: -1.288084]
[latitude: 0.718035] [longtitude: -1.288084]

Here's the two full log lines:

1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,033
<font size="36">SrtCnt : 1, DiffTime : 33ms
2020-05-23 18:16:48,783,547
[iso : 100] [shutter : 1/250.0] [fnum : 280] [ev : 0] [ct : 6009] [color_md : default] [focal_len : 240] [latitude: 0.718035] [longtitude: -1.288084] [altitude: 3.400000] </font>
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00:00:00,033 --> 00:00:00,066
<font size="36">SrtCnt : 2, DiffTime : 33ms
2020-05-23 18:16:48,816,904
[iso : 100] [shutter : 1/250.0] [fnum : 280] [ev : 0] [ct : 6009] [color_md : default] [focal_len : 240] [latitude: 0.718035] [longtitude: -1.288084] [altitude: 3.400000] </font>

Is there any way to fix this? I'm in NY, nowhere near 0.7N and 1.2W. I'd really like to convert these coordinates to real GPS coordinates so I can make map overlays for my videos.


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It looks like they're in radians; multiply by 180/pi to get degrees.
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mph6563 Posted at 5-24 11:41
It looks like they're in radians; multiply by 180/pi to get degrees.

No way. Looks like that matches up perfectly. I had no idea GPS coordinates in radians were used anywhere. Thank you!
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Yeah, latitude/longitude are not commonly presented in radians, but it's likely that they're stored in radians in the code because that's what trig functions in programming languages usually operate on. DJI may have intended to convert to degrees for the captions, but just forgot that step.
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