DECIMAL DEGREES Decimal degrees are an alternative to using degrees, minutes, and seconds (DMS). As with latitude and longitude, the values are bounded by ±90° and ±180° respectively. Positive lati...
Now that is very useful information. I have been hanging on to Minutes and Seconds because it is very easy to see the distance as long as you are comfortable with Nautical Miles which of are 1 minute of latitude. The most useful to me was one second being about 606 feet, or 56 meters.
Now that we are dealing with kilometers and meters the decimal make it even easier