Wgs84 Format

[HawkesNest]

In the instructions in how to hide a Cache, it mentions to use the WGS84 format. I'm very new and could use some insite. If I go to the link below for Utah mines, what type of coordinates are they showing me in the example below for the UT Baker mine? It seems that these mine coordinates are short by one didget.

 

(Step 4 - Report the Cache

If you use email, please provide the coordinates in WGS84 format)

 

UT Baker Mine mine Box Elder 413444N 1120020W Brigham City

 

http://btech.lunarpages.com/waypoints/UTMINES.TXT

[+Right Wing Wacko]

WGS84 is not a format, it's a coordinate system.

 

Groundspeak uses Decimal Minutes format

 

IE 35 degrees 28.916 Minutes

 

The numbers at the site you reference are latitude longitude like this;

You can either convert these to Decimal Minuites format or simply change the settings on your GPS.

 

352855N 0871117W

 

35 degrees 28 minutes 55 seconds north

87 degrees 11 minutes 17 seconds west.

 

Unfortunatly they do not specify WGS84, so it's possible that they are NAD27, an older but still used coordinate system.

[+briansnat]

What you see has nothing to do as to whether or not its WGS84. It's the format of the coordinates that are different. The ones you see are in decimal degrees. I think you want them to be in deg.min.min.

[gm100guy]

Try this link for converting.

 

And they are decimal degrees. And the Ones that are 112 have to have a - sign in front for the conversion as they are west of the meridan

 

 

How many caches are there in Cache County Utah? This is close to there.

 

Edited July 2, 2004 by gm100guy

[HawkesNest]

Thanks for the help, I'm sure I will get the hang of it soon.