Hi Pete,

With soooo many different models would be hard to say exactly, best way is to Google for a tutorial for your model. For example mine is a Nuvi so I googled "garmin nuvi gps coordinates" results gave me  host of online tutorials both written and video.

Hope the helps

Regards Steve.

-- Edited by madaboutled on Saturday 21st of March 2015 11:08:13 AM

I would guess that the 3 figs for the seconds includes one decimal point?
S 017 08 18.0
Personally I prefer degrees and decimal degrees.
S 017.138333

Cheers,
Peter

I also have a portable garmin and had the same problem. Days end i went through the settings and changed the co-ordiantes format to suit..As mentioned above where Wikicamps goves a single digit you will add the 0 before it eg 36:05/instead of 5 into your Garmin unit etc..

Peter1059 wrote:

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Hi guys,

I have a new to Tomtom go600 and it is a pain for adding cords, I go to google earth find the loc and then use their cords. It takes a bit of mucking around but works. You also get all the coords.

-- Edited by Peter1059 on Sunday 5th of April 2015 09:41:07 PM

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 That'd be fine if you have phone reception, even if a little long winded way of doing it. It would be much easier just to change your coordinate format setup on you GPS to suit what you prefer.