+chuckwagon101 Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Why does my Explorist 200 not allow a long coordinate input? It goes 5 decimal places and thats it!! Is this all there is?? Chuck Quote Link to comment
+Muddler Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Are you putting decimal minutes or decimal degrees. Even using Decimal degrees will give you accuracy of 5 feet if your GPS could give you accuracy down to that level and if you are using decimal minutes the accuracy should be the same. Quote Link to comment
+chuckwagon101 Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 Are you putting decimal minutes or decimal degrees. Even using Decimal degrees will give you accuracy of 5 feet if your GPS could give you accuracy down to that level and if you are using decimal minutes the accuracy should be the same. It gives this as Lon........-96.6280833333333 This is what I can enter on the gps.........96.62430 Is this enough of the number to find the cache? Also, what coordinate system am I supposed to use for the cache coordinates from the geocache website? Thanks, Chuck Quote Link to comment
+Team Tigger International Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 The co-ords listed on cache pages are usually in both UTM and hddd mm.mmm formats. Also you might wish to make sure you set the datum to WGS 84. Let me know if this helps. Wulf Quote Link to comment
+Cardinal Red Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Located in the United States your 4 most viable Coordinate formats are: HDD:MM:S.s (average resolution about 8.3 feet). HDD:MM.mmm (average resolution about 5 feet). This is the Geocaching standard. HDD.ddddd (average resolution a little more than 3 feet). UTM (resolution about 3 feet). Your question Longitude........-96.6280833333333 (average resolution about .00000036 inches). That's kind of GPS precision is not possible, but yours will work fine to find Caches. Quote Link to comment
+Jhwk Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 So your GC coordinates would look like: N 38 57.096 W 092 20.028 Quote Link to comment
+chuckwagon101 Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 The co-ords listed on cache pages are usually in both UTM and hddd mm.mmm formats. Also you might wish to make sure you set the datum to WGS 84. Let me know if this helps. Wulf Thanks to all for the help. I will try this info and get back to you. Chuck Quote Link to comment
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