Search by Coordinates

[+Markwell]

I noticed that the Hide & Seek a cache page now has searchability by coordinates in Deg/Min instead of the old Decimal Degrees. While this is great for people that do it by finding their current location by their GPS, MapBlast and other site give the coordinates in Decimal Degrees.

 

Any chance you could make it an option on the Hide and Seek to either enter by Deg/Min or a separate query to enter the search coordinates as DecDeg?

 

Markwell

My Geocaching Page

[+parkrrrr]

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Originally posted by Markwell:

 

Any chance you could make it an option on the Hide and Seek to either enter by Deg/Min or a separate query to enter the search coordinates as DecDeg?

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Why not just allow both, or DDD MM SS.SSS if that's what we've got? Surely the program could figure out that "41 8.532" means 41 degrees, 8.532 minutes while "41.8532" means 41.8532 degrees, etcetera. I have scripts that do that.

 

Of course, you have to be careful not to do what some other sites have done with negative coords, but that's easily dealt with.