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Entering a Northing and Easting into A Garmin


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You have two ways. One is to create a custom coordinate system within your unit, but that is very involved as I recall from when I did it some time ago. The easiest way is to first convert the State Plane (I assume that's what you have) coords to WGS84 (Lat/Lon). I work in GIS and do this type of conversion all the time.

 

If you have a file of your points and know what projection it is in, contact me thru my profile and I'll provide my contact info to help you.

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The previous posters may be confusing you....

 

In any case, you first need to know what datum and coordinate format is being used. The first poster is assuming UTM coordinate format, but you also need to know the datum. The second is assuming a State coordinate system, but he is assuming you live in the USA.... The OP could live anywhere in the world.

 

Go back to the source of the coordinates and ask / find out what datum is being using and what format the coordinates are in. Many are built into the GPS.

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Assuming you are sure they are in WGS84 datum and UTM format, then change the settings in the GPS to those and enter the coordinates. You could also do it on a computer with something like Basecamp and send them to the GPS.

 

Those coordinates in that format are on the Wave Trail and would be entered in Basecamp as 12 S 409439 4097561

 

N37° 01.192' W112° 01.084'

https://goo.gl/maps/Hiozk

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Assuming you are sure they are in WGS84 datum and UTMN format, then change the settings in the GPS to those and enter the coordinates. You could also do it on a computer with something like Basecamp and send them to the GPS.

 

Those coordinates in that format are on the Wave Trail.

 

They are indeed for The Wave trail!!! Thanks, Ill try changing the unit format and then entering the coords

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