Negative / West values for longitude not recorded in .properties file for image

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Go to area where longitude can be expected to be recorded as negative
 e.g. Wilmington, North Carolina @ lat=34.22xxxx, long=-77.94xxxx
2.dashboard > take note > photo
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
IMG_XXXXXXXX_XXXXXX.properties file for photo taken should have longitude match 
longitude photo was taken at, i.e. long=-77.94xxxx, but shows up as a positive 
number = 77.94xxxx (in India). 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Geopap 3.6.2
Android 4.1.2 with HTC Sense 5.0 on HTC One.

Please provide any additional information below.
The negative values for longitude are recorded correctly  in geopaparazzi.db 
(but only to two decimal places).
uDig references .properties file for media import.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rwfels...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2013 at 8:55

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Ugh, that is an ugly one. Can I ask you 2 things? 

1 - could you open the issue at the new repo? 
https://github.com/moovida/geopaparazzi/issues

2 - can you reproduce the problem inserting the note manually from the map 
view? 

I want to make a release tomorrow, so if you can give me a simple way to 
reproduce it from an Italian position, that would be great. I really want to 
fix this before throwing it out. 

Original comment by andrea.a...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2013 at 9:14

• Changed state: Accepted

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I'll open an account on github and open the issue there.
I tried centering the map and inserting photo notes in different areas, and
I had the same issue with the generated .properties file - so you should be
able to test it out by centering your map somewhere with a negative
longitude.

Original comment by rwfels...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2013 at 9:42

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Original comment by andrea.a...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2013 at 5:09

• Changed state: Fixed