Downloading Waypoints

[+C&C+COMPANY]

I was wondering, when you download a waypoint does it put it into hh.mmm.mmm or just hh.mmmmm?

[+Robespierre]

N40 44.221 W82 47.946

[+Sputnik 57]

I was wondering, when you download a waypoint does it put it into hh.mmm.mmm or just hh.mmmmm?

hdd mm.mmm (hemisphere, degrees, minutes, decimal minutes) Same as shown on the cache page.

[+Markwell]

Actually, it depends on the software. You can change the preferences on EasyGPS to show the coordinates in Decimal Degrees (DD.DDDDD) or Degrees Decimal Minutes (DD MM.MMM) or even Degrees/Minutes/Seconds (DD MM SS.S). The exported data actually stores them as decimal degrees, but almost any software out there can show them in whatever format you like.

[+Thot]

Just to emphasize part of what Markwell said, the file you download from GC.com has the coordinates in degrees.decimal degrees format, with hemispheres indicated by their sign -- west and south negative/minus.

 

Edited to add:

 

You can look at the contents/guts of the file you download by putting it in Windows Notepad.

Edited December 8, 2004 by Thot

[+NightPilot]

But that's just a text representation. The GPS actually stores it as decimal, although it can be displayed as dd mm ss, or dd mm.mmm.