Lat Long Entry In Mappoint 2004

[+TeamMINI]

Using Mappoint North American streets 2004 I am having great difficulty even after using the programs help function. when I do (rarely) manage it to recognize an input lat-long it appears to be WAY off. I would love to use this to navigate on the laptop to the general area of a cache or even plan a route for a day of caching. Thoughts anyone?

[+Olar]

If you are creating a pushpin to represent the cache by using the 'find' by latitude & longitude option then keep in mind that the input must be in decimal degrees as opposed to geocaching.com's decimal minutes.

 

An example would be:

 

gc.com format N44° 02.455, W079° 04.553 converted equals,

MapPoint 44.040917°, -79.075883°

 

Hope that helps, Olar

Edited November 29, 2004 by Olar

[+Bozz]

You have to convert it to the right format....

 

I had the same problem til someone told me to use the converting program.... It is called GeoCalc.

 

Not sure where I got it, but if you do a search, your likely to find it.

 

Bozz

[+BruceS]

A couple years ago there was a forum posting for a free MapPoint add-in that added a menu item so you can enter coordinates in the dd mm.mmm format rather than converting them. I was not able to find the forum posting. The add-in's name is cachemap.dll and it works great... I use it every day.

 

BruceS

[+ZackJones]

BruceS: I did a google search but couldn't find a current place to download the file cachemap.dll would you mind emailing me the dll?

[+BruceS]

BruceS: I did a google search but couldn't find a current place to download the file cachemap.dll would you mind emailing me the dll?

 

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