In the case of our data cleanup, the simplistic removal of stray characters may not be sufficient. When working with the geolocation data, we may have a wide variety of input formats that include simple degrees (37.549016197), degrees and minutes (37° 32.94097′), and degrees-minutes-seconds (37° 32′ 56.46″). Of course, there can be even more subtle cleaning problems: some devices will create an output with the Unicode U+00BA character, º, instead of the similar-looking degree character, °, which is U+00B0.
For this reason, it is often necessary to provide a separate cleansing function that's bundled in with the conversion function. This function will handle the more sophisticated conversions required by inputs ...
