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Which Datum/grid Setup For The Usa ?


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I live in the UK and use a Garmin Quest. We are going to the states later this year and want to make sure the unit is set up correctly to work in the US. At the moment it is set up to use WGS84 and OSBG or lon/lat. What settings would I use in the US ? (I will be using Mapsource City Select North America).

 

I hope you can all help me.

 

Thankyou in advance

 

Tim and Rachel

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I have found caches in the UK with my US settings and it works just fine. I have it set up just like RK suggests. I'm not sure what OSBG is though. I know that people in general in the UK use a grid system and some in the US use UTM which is probably similar. If you stick with the lat and long as given first on the cache page you should be fine.

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All caches worldwide are supposed to be setup as RK replied.

 

If you look at the bottom of all cache pages, you'll see the following:

 

Current time: 1/18/2005 6:59:28 PM

Last Updated: 1/16/2005 8:11:57 PM

Rendered: From Web Service

Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum

 

If the owner uses a different datum, it should be listed in the cache description.

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