Co- ordinates

Footprints · Senior Member

Co- ordinates

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Hi Allen,

My understanding is Degrees, Feet and inches. The "E" is for East, "S" South and so on.

I keyed in the co-ords for a place on a couple of occassions and once ended up going down a cane field track, the accual spot was just on the other side of a narrow cane strip. They were dort roads around me though so hard to tell the difference. The other one was I ended up on the wrong side of a very small hill, no problem, just turned around and went to other side of hill, again took wrong track, easy to do in some situations. My excuse anyway smile

Hope that helps and you don't get lost.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Perhaps this might help ...

https://www.maptools.com/tutorials/lat_lon/formats

Or this confuse http://boulter.com/gps/

Cheers - John

-- Edited by rockylizard on Friday 19th of February 2016 09:11:43 AM

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I meant to say Degrees, minutes and seconds biggrin biggrin Must be this silly ipad smile disbelief

Sorry for the bum steer Allen.

Ya got me on that one Rocky, bugga.

Explorer · Guru

Allen, If You don't have a GPS such as one of the Hema's, that You can enter the coordinates (longitude & latitudes) into, You would be better of sticking to the street

addresses given.

Mike.

03_Troopy · Guru

Which GPS navigator are you using Allen? you should be able to change the coordinates format in your settings to suit whichever you want.
Eg:
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds - DDD° MM' SS.S"

Degrees and Decimal Minutes - DDD° MM.MMM'

elliemike · Guru

You need to enter both sets of Coordinates

One is Latitude (South) E.g.19 34 16S the other is Longitude (East) E.g.147 20 12E

Sorry the Longitude keeps jumping into a Skype ph No ?

-- Edited by elliemike on Friday 19th of February 2016 02:09:49 PM

Footprints · Senior Member

03_Troopy wrote:
Which GPS navigator are you using Allen? you should be able to change the coordinates format in your settings to suit whichever you want.
Eg:
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds - DDD° MM' SS.S"

Degrees and Decimal Minutes - DDD° MM.MMM'

The Sat nav that i am using is the standard Isuzu which is fitted to all the current trucks. called NAVTEO MAPS i don't think i can down load any other system to it, not that I am too computer savvy. Thank you all for your replies. Cheers Allen.

Now i may be able to get off the reservation Dougwe.

03_Troopy · Guru

Footprints wrote:
03_Troopy wrote:
Which GPS navigator are you using Allen? you should be able to change the coordinates format in your settings to suit whichever you want.
Eg:
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds - DDD° MM' SS.S"

Degrees and Decimal Minutes - DDD° MM.MMM'
The Sat nav that i am using is the standard Isuzu which is fitted to all the current trucks. called NAVTEO MAPS i don't think i can down load any other system to it, not that I am too computer savvy. Thank you all for your replies. Cheers Allen.
Now i may be able to get off the reservation Dougwe.

You don't need to download anything Allen.

From your manual, you can enter coordinates in either of the formats I listed.

Page 63 and 64 of the manual

-- Edited by 03_Troopy on Friday 19th of February 2016 04:57:54 PM

John Kay · Veteran Member

Hi Allen.

We just recently travelled half the big loop. We used Wiki Camps, camps7 and IGO maps on our GPS system. After making a mistake, we then changed (our preference) our GPS to Degrees, Minutes and Seconds - DDD° MM' SS.S" and had no problems.

Hope this is of help to you.

John & Vicki