MikroTik GPS NMEA to Decimal – No Float Parsing Possible?

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Hi all,

What I want:
Send GPS data from my MikroTik (LtAP LR8, RouterOS 7.19) to Traccar using HTTP (osmand protocol). Traccar requires decimal degrees, but MikroTik outputs NMEA (e.g. 5259.0371).

The Problem:
My MikroTik won’t parse or calculate float values – :tonum “1.5” and :parse “59.0371/60” both return nothing. All scripts just produce integers, not decimal degrees.

Question:
Has anyone managed to convert NMEA to decimal degrees on MikroTik without working float math?
Any workaround or idea?
Or is external processing the only way?

Thanks!

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Can’t you change the “coordinate-format” to use “dms”?
i.e.

/system/gps/set coordinate-format=dms

which would get you degrees, minutes, seconds. May still require some parsing for your needs… but avoid floating point math (which is not possible).

Or there is “coordinate-format=dd” for decimal degrees if that what you mean…

See https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/ROS/pages/84901890/GPS#GPS-ConfigurationProperties