AkreFamily Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 As long as I've been geocaching, I've used the app on my iPhone. Trying to guide my Girls Scout thru Geocache badge & need to teach them to use a handheld GPS. I bought a used Magellan Triton 200. I have gotten the manual online. But, I've been fiddling with it all day and cannot figure out how to put in coordinates (It won't let me insert a (.) where I want, I can't find out to place the degree symbol, etc. Is there a local (Columbia SC) who knows this little unit who can walk me thru? Or meet me in person and I'll buy you a beer as compensation for a little tutoring :-) Quote Link to comment
+RufusClupea Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 GPS questions might better be directed to the GPS forum. Likewise with localities. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 13 hours ago, AkreFamily said: As long as I've been geocaching, I've used the app on my iPhone. Trying to guide my Girls Scout thru Geocache badge & need to teach them to use a handheld GPS. I bought a used Magellan Triton 200. I have gotten the manual online. But, I've been fiddling with it all day and cannot figure out how to put in coordinates (It won't let me insert a (.) where I want, I can't find out to place the degree symbol, etc. Is there a local (Columbia SC) who knows this little unit who can walk me thru? Or meet me in person and I'll buy you a beer as compensation for a little tutoring :-) I can't really provide specific help, but when entering coordinates into a GPS (or on the web site) you don't need to enter the degree symbol. It's implied when using the coordinate format. The format should look something like this: N 34 00.070 W 081 02.010 Although you can enter coordinates directly to a GPS, it's far more common to "download" geocache waypoint data (from the web site) to the GPS. One of the things that using the app on a smart phone has done is to make it unnecessary to understand what Lat/Long coordinates actually mean. The coordinate format described above is in Degrees Decimal Minutes format with the hemisphere (N/S/E/W) specified as a alphanumeric character. One can certainly geocache (and obtain the badge) without knowing anything about coordinates but I think it would be more educational to explain what those coordinates mean and how they can be used to find a location. Quote Link to comment
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