I'm trying to add another feature to the map contacts but running into a little difficulty. I'm wanting to compute their lattitude and longitude. The game gives me the distance from the origin. Origin is in the Gulf von Guineea west of Kongo (you can find it on your nav map). These distances from origin are in meters. I know that a degree of lattitude is approx. 111km and a degree of longitude is approx 111km at the equator and goes to 0 at the poles. If I divide the distance the game gives me for lattitude by 111000 (in meters) the value comes close but doesn't match what the game puts in the messagebox (say for a radio contact report). The longitude part I haven't derived the mathematical formula for it yet. Can any math majors help me out here?
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