ToMinutes

Some of the functionality of the World Plotting Package is now available in CountryData.

ToMinutes[degs]
converts degrees to minutes.

ToMinutes[{degs, mins, secs}]
converts from DMS form to minutes.

ToMinutes[{{{d, m, s}, {d, m, s}}, {{d, m, s}, {d, m, s}}...}]
converts to {{lat, long}, {lat, long}...} with the coordinates in minutes.

To use ToMinutes, you first need to load the World Plotting Package using Needs["WorldPlot`"].