“ Latitude and longitude can be written down as degrees, minutes and seconds, or as degrees and decimal increments, or in some combination.”
I have personal experience attempting to coordinate across multiple agencies, across multiple assets (air, land, water) using different location formats. It’s a problem and causes much confusion.
Double that with different map formats. Air assets using aeronautical charts, land asserts using topo (or even Google maps), water assets using navigational charts.
Personally, I like decimal degrees. Easier to speak over the radio and if the receiver doesn’t catch all the digits on the first call, it’ll at least get them pointed in the right direction.
As for maps, correlate major landmarks/navigational aids to their closest aeronautical fixes, wa