Importing geographic coordinates from Filemaker db

I have a large collection (over 10,000) of photos in iPhoto 11 and a Filemaker database with their geographic coordinates in degree/min/sec format. Does anyone know of a method to import these coordinates and match them to the photo. Each entry in the FM db has the photo title as the first item.
In a related note, doing this manually I find that all the coordinates have to be first converted to decimal degrees. This is crazy since Google maps (the source for Places) can handle either format. Anyone aware of a simple way to convert >10,000 sets of coordinates to the decimal format?

Thanks for the suggestion. I took a look at Houdah's website and I'm not sure it will do what I want. To clarify, I have a large collection of photos of biological samples and a FM database containing a listing of the photo titles and their coordinates but no waypoint data (e.g. timepoints). It seems that HoudahGeo is looking for timepoints to match with your photo timestamps.
It seems that there ought to be a straightforward way to match the photos in each database (iPhoto and Filemaker) and copy the coordinate data to the photo files. Doing this manually would consume far too much time.
I'll post a note on the HoudahGeo discussion board for further feedback.

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