[ale] Decimal Degrees in MySQL

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

Can someone tell me the best way to store decimal degrees in MySQL?

I want to create columns named ddlat and ddlon.  I'm not sure if I
should use a float,double, or just a string.

Decimal Degrees is formated like this:

(-)XXX.XXXXXX

Chris