GPS Reading vs Google Earth

[Sugar Land Yak]

These are my GPS readings N32 50'.736, and this is what I found on Google Earth 32°50'45.09"N, why the difference?

[+Knight2000]

These are my GPS readings N32 50'.736, and this is what I found on Google Earth 32°50'45.09"N, why the difference?

Just different ways of writing the same info.

 

Example: 9:45 is the same as quarter to ten.

[+TrailGators]

These are my GPS readings N32 50'.736, and this is what I found on Google Earth 32°50'45.09"N, why the difference?

Your GPS is reading in degrees, minutes and fractional minutes. Google Earth is using degrees, minutes and seconds. There are several other ways of providing coordinates as well. Edited July 10, 2007 by TrailGators

[+Knight2000]

I cant really find a better site, but this shows different ways of writing the same information.

 

http://home.online.no/~sigurdhu/Deg_formats.htm

[+imajeep]

Go to GE options--it has a couple of different formats you can set.

[+StarBrand]

Same spot different ways of writing it. Your GPS smoothly translates between them once entered.

[+Nachtraaf]

When you are logged on to gc.com and visit a detail page of a cache you find a link at the right of the coordinates to other formats. Those mean always the same.

 

Greetings,

Hans