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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: hear duck on October 11, 2010, 05:39:56 PM

Title: Entering Coordinates from a Paper Map
Post by: hear duck on October 11, 2010, 05:39:56 PM
I bought a map and it has coordinates at certain intersections to help identify when I'd be close to a spot of interest.  They look like this 45.201,16' N 88.852,26' W.  I tried entering them into a Garmin 62 and it looks like a different format.  My input options on the Garmin look like this N45 16.315 W89 01.781 (sample numbers).  How do I enter the maps coordinates into the Garmin??
Title: Re: Entering Coordinates from a Paper Map
Post by: maps4gps on October 11, 2010, 06:38:56 PM
Looks like degrees and decimals of a degree.  Change the coordinate setting on the GPSr to degrees and decimals.  Would help if we knew which GPSr model you had.
Title: Re: Entering Coordinates from a Paper Map
Post by: jbensman on October 11, 2010, 07:43:24 PM
I am not sure about that.  The ,16" and ,26 does not make any sense.  I have never seen cordinates like that before.  Find something that there is a cord for that you can find the cord for it somewhere else (like mapsource).  Then post them and maybe someone could figure it out.  GoogleEarth will accept cords in almost any format and they would not take those.