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I've just visited a number of websites of private German organisations whose 
subject is either astronomy, navigation or astro-navigation. The only 
references to latitude, longitude and declination that I encountered were in 
terms of the familiar Greek letters phi, lambda and delta respectively. That 
doesn't mean that the German Navy uses this notation, but it seems very 
likely. Here's an analogy: The German military at present uses the NATO 
radio-alphabet exclusively, although that may not always have been the case. 
The older German radio-alphabet, on the other hand, is still widely used 
outside the military. I know this because I have booked flights with German 
travel agents over the phone. So if German civilians, who are not bound to 
any norms regulating the notation of co-ordinates, commonly use the 
Greek-letter standard notation used in the English-speaking world, then why 
should the German military do else? Sorry I can't give you a 100% certain 
answer.

Christian Scheele
Cape Town

   

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