Lady SheWolf Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 I'm just a tiny (alot) lost here. And I'm probably doing it all wrong. I went out today with 3 clues and co ords on a sheet of paper parked and started walking to the first clue. which was a House. Anyways gets to where what we thought was the right clue and the co-ords were way out. On arrival home I checked the given co-ords with Streetmap.co.uk and it came up with the place we were standing out side. Then I read about this datum thing........ but can't find in the gps or manual any reference to what mine is. I've searched on a girls best friend Google but still no luck. I've a Medion 95000 from Aldis with the Navigon 4.2 software. Some advice please. TIA Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 Have you tried asking in the UK forum? In this case, it might be more useful than the Getting Started forum. I'm a US cacher who caches in the UK sometimes. If I take UK coords directly off GC.com and download them into my US-region GPSr, it points accurately to the cache, but the map on my GPSr shows me many yards out of place (floating in mid-ocean while I'm walking along the shore, for example). If I take the coords off my Fugawi software for the UK, I'm many yards out from the cache -- but I look right on the Ordnance Survey maps inside Fugawi. The software is compensating for the datum difference. Short answer: take the coords off the cache page, and you should be fine. Long answer: datum differences make my brain hurt; ask a savvy Brit what's really going on. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 The Geocaching Datum is WGS84. If your software is set up for a different datum you could be off by quite a distance. Quote Link to comment
+pathfind2003 Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 Right on Renegade Knight. On your GPS go to Setup, and select Datums. Choose WGS84 or NAD83 (if it doesn't have the WGS84). Pathfinder Quote Link to comment
Lady SheWolf Posted January 9, 2005 Author Share Posted January 9, 2005 Thanks for the replies, I' will go post in the UK forum to see if anyone has the same software as me, cos it doesn't seem to want to enable me to change it. I guess I'll have to hunt thing else out if not. Quote Link to comment
Lady SheWolf Posted January 11, 2005 Author Share Posted January 11, 2005 Jus tto say I tried a different software and it seemed to work Well we found our very first cache . Hopefully I'll iron out the finer points for next time. Thanks for all your help. I think I like this game Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Thanks for all your help. I think I like this game Excellent! The dozen or so caches I've done in the UK have been...just amazing experiences. If you're ever on the South coast, don't miss Battle Abbey or the Long Man or so many of the fantastic public footpaths. Quote Link to comment
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