CundL

Thank you geoCATing for the hint with the averaging option!! Our GPS does have it. And thanks a lot DonB, Calypso62, Gitchee-Gummee and StarBrand for sharing your experiences and methods!! We'll give them a try and hopefully find out the most accurate coordinates like that! (And we'll no longer let us unsettle by Google/Bing!)

Thank you geoCATing for the hint with the averaging option!! Our GPS does have it. And thanks a lot DonB, Calypso62, Gitchee-Gummee and StarBrand for sharing your experiences and methods!! We'll give them a try and hopefully find out the most accurate coordinates like that! (And we'll no longer let us unsettle by Google/Bing!)

Hi! We want to place a cache (our first one) and already found a very nice spot, a good hiding place and a container that fits very well. Moreover, we've read and unterstood the guidelines and are aware of the rules. However, we took the coordinates three times with our GPS (Garmin) and every time got - of course - slightly different coordinates. To see which coordinates would be most accurate we tried them out in Google Maps and Bing. And we were really suprised to see that... ...in Google Maps the coordinates we got from our GPS are about 30 meters walking distance from our anticipated hiding place where we took the coordinates. ...in Bing the they are closer to the anticipated hiding place but still not really at the correct spot. What should we do? Should we publish the coordinates we took with our GPS or rather trust Bing or Google coordinates and take them from there? Thanks in advance for your answers!! Greetings from Germany CundL