nismoguy83835 Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 (edited) I am trying to place my first cache and I verified my coordinates with 2 different gps devices. When I get to the page to enter the coordinates it shows different ways of entering them. The only way that seems to even work places the gz in the right state but no where near where its supposed to be. As a side note, every time I put in the coordinates the other ways, I get and error message saying "can not parse....". What does this mean and how can I make this work? Im really excited to place a cache and I seem to have run into a brick wall. Thanks for any help. EDIT: these are the coordinates. N 47º42.381', W 116º47.116' Edited September 12, 2012 by nismoguy83835 Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Enter the coordinates as N47 42.381 W116 47.116. The form is does not understand all the ways of entering the coordinates as listed. Drop the degree sign and drop the minute sign. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 That is not the degree sign: ° That is the ordinal indicator: º They look similar, but are completely different characters. As jholly indicated, you can just leave out the degree sign. Or you could copy-paste the degree sign from a page that you know gets it right. Quote Link to comment
GPS-Hermit Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 (edited) Google FizzyCalc and use it - if it understands your co-odinates and converts it - the output will be acceptable to cache page. I put yours in and it knew what to do with it - even with the characters you chose. Pretty neat software and safe,fast and easy to install. I think you will like it for multiple reasons. Have a ball - it is fun! This software does require a Windows Computer! Edited September 15, 2012 by GPS-Hermit Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Google FizzyCalc and use it - if it understands your co-odinates and converts it - the output will be acceptable to cache page. I put yours in and it knew what to do with it - even with the characters you chose. Pretty neat software and safe,fast and easy to install. I think you will like it for multiple reasons. Have a ball - it is fun! This software does require a Windows Computer! There is a Mac version of FizzyCalc converted by Jim Carson. He did a great job. Quote Link to comment
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