+gingernuttter Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Hi, I live in the UK and I am off to Crete shortly and suddenly thought will I need to change my position format from British Grid? If so, what do I change it to as I couldn't see a 'Greek' option! Many thanks in advance Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 ? The format you will use will depend entirely upon your use model. What will you be DOING in Greece with a GPS receiver such that you would care about a particular format? Where will you be obtaining your location information? These days, I think you'll find most currently published locations (even those in the UK) using lat/long are using WGS84 datum in one of the three common notations (dms, dd.ddddd or dd mm.mmm). Quote Link to comment
+gingernuttter Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 Thank you for your response, I have a Garmin 600 I will be hiking and geocaching while out there and was concerned that 'British Grid' would not be relevant for my downloaded coordinates or to define my position. Or is that only when you have OS maps loaded on your GPS? ? Quote Link to comment
+Naviprode Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 (edited) For geocaching use hddd°mm.mmm, otherwise UTM UPS; other formats are only necessary when using paper maps (all settings: Oregon 600/650 setup) Edited May 1, 2016 by Naviprode Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Set the datum to WGS84, and co-ord format to ddd mm.mmm . If you need maps you can get OSM maps from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ Quote Link to comment
+Red90 Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Thank you for your response, I have a Garmin 600 I will be hiking and geocaching while out there and was concerned that 'British Grid' would not be relevant for my downloaded coordinates or to define my position. Or is that only when you have OS maps loaded on your GPS? ? If all you are doing is downloading coordinates, it does not matter. The settings on the GPS do not affect anything. Quote Link to comment
+gingernuttter Posted May 2, 2016 Author Share Posted May 2, 2016 Thank you very much to everyone for your responses all very helpful. Looking forward to finding my first cache outside the UK!! Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 One assumes you are not already trying to cache with "British Grid" enabled, since entering coordinates for mutli-caches and the like would be rather problematic. Whatever ... If your GPS is configured such that you are getting acceptable geocaching results in the UK, that won't change anywhere in the world. Quote Link to comment
+MtnMutt-ProDuckShins Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Since you are a Premium Member you can do a PQ of the entire island. https://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx?lat=35.591017&lng=24.146433#?ll=35.21365,24.89227&z=10 Hope you enjoy your time away from the island. Lots of great hikes, which you will need since the food is Super. Quote Link to comment
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