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File Name /infobank/<letter>/<activityid>/nav/<activity-id>.000
Style time/lat/long style, multi-record, in caps, without tabs
Mnemonic
(Year, Day, Hour, Min, Sec, Tenths, Lat, Lon, Elev, Iter, SLa, SLo, SAc, SCc, MAc, MCc, Qual)
Fortran format
(i4.4, i3.3, 3i2.2, i1.1, t16, f9.5, t26, f10.5, t38, f8.3, t48, f8.3, t58, f8.3, t68, f8.3, t78, f8.3, t88, f8.3, t98, f8.3, t108, f8.3, t118, f8.3)
C format
(%4.4i%3.3i3%2.2i%1.1i %9.5f %10.5f %4.1f %2.2i %5.3f %5.3f %6.3f %6.3f %6.3f %6.3f %2.2i\\n)
Purpose temporal-spatial data
Derivative data acquisition systems
Comment pre-GPS, pre-integrated navigation

Example
         1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8         9        10        11        12      
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456
    
19843051751370  23.71438 -76.73107    275.000   138.000     0.000    10.206   -46.941   -16.586    45.084    48.038    -1.357
19843052157200  23.71695 -76.78731     26.000    43.000     0.000   127.835   157.582  -182.478    88.744   202.912     0.889
19843052225560  23.65874 -76.76197    165.000    72.000     0.000   -84.101    50.851    54.725    81.633    98.279     2.598
19843052304080  23.58941 -76.72764    102.000    59.000     0.000   -56.971  -207.645   139.358  -164.138   215.319    -1.839
19843052341400  23.51456 -76.69292     72.000    45.000     0.000  -180.918  -516.911   382.257  -392.183   547.660    -1.907
      

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