+dmnrec Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 This has probably been asked, or it is somewhere on the website, so forgive me..but I'd like some help quick as I would like to take some kids from a rec center to this cache this afternoon... We figured out this Cryptoquiz cache, but our numbers are off..I emailed the owner for some help, here is his response: did you remember that there are several formats for Lat-long? The numbers you have for CryptoQuiz are correct. N DD.DDDDDº W DD.DDDDDº The format you are used to is DD MM.MMM Here are my numbers: N46 degrees 68.692 W92 degrees 28.350 Can anyone tell me how to convert it or can someone tell me what the answer is?? Thanks Quote Link to comment
WH Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Im sorry, but asking for answers to a puzzle cache in the forums is in poor taste. The cache owner put time and effort into setting it up and wouldn't like it if others spoiled it for him. Hope you get it figured out. Quote Link to comment
+dmnrec Posted June 28, 2005 Author Share Posted June 28, 2005 There was quite a bit more to it that just getting the numbers for figuring it out..we had the whole puzzle figured out, but needed to find out how to do such a conversion...sorry Quote Link to comment
+Byron & Anne Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Ooooooo... Very easy. In fact he told you almost exactly how to make it right. Reread his response again and again. It'll eventually make sense. Quote Link to comment
WH Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 My apologies for mis-understanding. Heres how to convert: N 41 12.345 W071 54.321 There are 60 minutes in a degree. If you take the minutes portion and divide by 60, you will get decimal degrees: 12.345 / 60 = .20575 54.321 / 60 = .90535 Thus the converted coordinates would be: N 41.20575 W071.90535 I hope this helps. Quote Link to comment
+dmnrec Posted June 28, 2005 Author Share Posted June 28, 2005 Thank you, I did find a link to a university website and plugged in the numbers, but I came up with something a little different from yours..the numbers I got from that website are very close to his other puzzle caches, so I'm going to try them..but I'll bring yours along also, in case my results were wrong. Here is the website: http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us/gis/latlon.html Quote Link to comment
WH Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Don't use my exact numbers. I picked those random coords just for an example. on how to do the conversion . Quote Link to comment
+dmnrec Posted June 28, 2005 Author Share Posted June 28, 2005 I thought maybe you had probably reversed a couple of numbers..good thing you told me..we might have hiked to the next state! The kids had a great time figuring the puzzles out, now the real fun begins!! Quote Link to comment
WH Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 I thought maybe you had probably reversed a couple of numbers..good thing you told me..we might have hiked to the next state! More like hiking a couple of time zones away. Quote Link to comment
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