Geocaching in France - help needed please

[+Funk to Funky]

Hi,

I will be doing some walking (and therefore geocaching of course) in Corsica next month and wondered what I need to do to my GPSr settings before I go. At the moment it is set as hddd° mm.mmm' using WGS 84. Do I need to change this? To UTM possibly if I want to relate it to the map?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Stuart

Edited August 18, 2015 by Funk to Funky

[+on4bam]

I will be doing some walking (and therefore geocaching of course) in Corsica next month and wondered what I need to do to my GPSr settings before I go. At the moment it is set as hddd° mm.mmm' using WGS 84. Do I need to change this? To UTM possibly if I want to relate it to the map?

 

You don't have to do anything. That's why they call it GLOBAL positioning You might want a good map on your GPS and OSM maps are the way to go as they are free. You can download from here.

[+hzoi]

Comment est votre français? Bien? Comme ci comme ça?

[+cachepohl]

... et je pensais toujours que parmi les géocacheurs on se tutoie

 

Back to the question, the settings mainly influence the way the data is displayed and entered, so it should be in the form you enter coordinates in (manually or by GPX file) - which is the same geocaching.com uses all over the world.

Ok, everywhere except for North Corea (no caches there...).

Some mystery caches deliver coordinates in other forms, for those it can be handy to switch, but not for the 'normal geocaching business'.

 

If you need the current correct reading of the time, you might have to change the timezone setting though, since the satellite data sends UTC, Corse has CET (UTC+1, +2 with DST until October)

[+MtnMutt-ProDuckShins]

I've had no issue on the times I've gone. I do review the area before I leave the states, load up the GPSr and ready to go.

 

Once there I do some more checking during a WiFi hotspot and load if I want more.

 

I'm currently loading a huge number for UK and a few in Germany, I hope I get a chance to do them...

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Hi,

I will be doing some walking (and therefore geocaching of course) in Corsica next month and wondered what I need to do to my GPSr settings before I go. At the moment it is set as hddd° mm.mmm' using WGS 84. Do I need to change this? To UTM possibly if I want to relate it to the map?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Stuart

 

I've geocached in 21 different countries and have never had to change coordinate formats. As on4bam suggested,*IF* you have a Garmin GPS you can download mapsets for anyplace in the world that you can use while traveling.

 

 

[+Funk to Funky]

Thank you for your help everyone - very much appreciated