Does anyone know how the Model Translation Attributes affect the eventual location in Google Earth?

Im trying to get code to geolocate a model too however just entering a longitude and latitude manually in sketch up is not working. Im getting the long and lat from a place mark in Google Earth but when I put those values in the Sketchup model manually the model is placed far away from that place.

[Edit: My problem was not converting from the degrees, minutes and seconds format in Google Earth to the decimal format used by Sketchup.
e.g. https://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/degrees-minutes-seconds-tofrom-decimal-degrees]

Im still interested to know the purpose of these attributes i.e.
model.set_attribute key, "ModelTranslationX" , -12901579.2256146
model.set_attribute key, "ModelTranslationY" , -214086056.635273

Thanks...

Paul Francis