AIR BOSS 1 Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 I'm old to geocaching , but new to hiding. So I'm wondering why when I use my gammon legend to mark a hide and put the chords in my phone app such as gps coordinate or even the app geo or geocaching4locus they all tell me I'm way off. When people send in the chords to geocaching.com to set up a new cache, what is used? Should I stick with my gps and send in the averaged results? Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 What format is your GPS set for? It either needs to be the same as Geocaching.com uses (Degrees, Minutes, Decimal Minutes) or else you need to do a conversion before entering the same coordinates in a different place. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 1 hour ago, AIR BOSS 1 said: I'm old to geocaching , but new to hiding. So I'm wondering why when I use my gammon legend to mark a hide and put the chords in my phone app such as gps coordinate or even the app geo or geocaching4locus they all tell me I'm way off. When people send in the chords to geocaching.com to set up a new cache, what is used? Should I stick with my gps and send in the averaged results? This is so common when your GPS isn't using the same format as geocaching. Check that first. Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 Also be sure your Legend is set for WGS84 datum, and not something else like NAD27. That can throw you off by quite a bit depending upon where you are. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 See also the Help Center article How to get accurate coordinates. Quote Link to comment
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