help with position format

[+dirtyhippieboy]

I've got a Garmin Etrex I've used for geocaching for a while. I'm trying to input waypoints from a hiking website and I don't recognize the position format they are using. 36 17' 10.47" N 115 38' 46.47" W

 

I've tried a few different formats and none of them give me the right options to enter those waypoints as they are written. Can anyone help me figure out how to input them?

[+RonFisk]

I've got a Garmin Etrex I've used for geocaching for a while. I'm trying to input waypoints from a hiking website and I don't recognize the position format they are using. 36 17' 10.47" N 115 38' 46.47" W

 

I've tried a few different formats and none of them give me the right options to enter those waypoints as they are written. Can anyone help me figure out how to input them?

This format you show is degrees, minutes and seconds. You can convert them to degrees and decimal minutes. Check the preferences in Google Earth. I'm not sure about the Etrex, but most GPS's allow you to change to DMS for entry and then change them back to DDM later.

Edited September 8, 2008 by RonFisk

[+DustyWalker]

You need to change the position format on your receiver to "hddd mm ss.s"

[jmundinger]

That sure looks like degrees - minutes - seconds to me

 

Try switching to that format - entering the data in that format - then switch back to degrees - minutes - decimal minutes.

 

When you make the conversion, I'm guessing that it will look something like:

 

N36 17.175 W115 38.774

[+dirtyhippieboy]

Thanks for the help. I entered it in degrees minutes seconds, then checked google maps and it looks pretty good to me. It seems to be a little bit off, but I'm looking for trail junctions and summits not geocaches so I don't need the same kind of accuracy.