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Issues inputting waypoints manually Explorist 310


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OK, I have posted about this before but this is seriously baffling me!

 

I'm trying to input 39.96782 -105.23083 but when I save it, it saves as 40.36782 with the west point the same.

 

I have my navigation settings on:

 

Primary: Lat/Lon

Degree/Minute

Primary Coor Accuracy: 1 Meter

Primary Map Datum: WGS84

And same with secondary

North Reference: Magnetic

Altimeter Source: GPS

 

What am I doing wrong???

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Pup gave you the answer because your settings are DDD MM.mmm, which is degrees and decimal minutes.

You are trying to enter decimal degrees, DDD.ddddd, which is a different format.

The reason we know that is 96782, which cannot be entered as minutes because 59.999 is the most you can enter for minutes.

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Pup gave you the answer because your settings are DDD MM.mmm, which is degrees and decimal minutes.

You are trying to enter decimal degrees, DDD.ddddd, which is a different format.

The reason we know that is 96782, which cannot be entered as minutes because 59.999 is the most you can enter for minutes.

 

Which was covered in the OP's other thread:

 

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=285582&st=0&p=4895837

 

 

B.

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OK so what settings does my GPS have to be on? Please pretend that I have no idea how all this stuff works and you're talking to a child. I listed what my settings are. The only option I have is to be in degrees, degrees minutes or degrees minutes seconds. So what do I do??

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Is there anything new on this topic? I’m having the same issue with my Magellan eXplorist 310. This is how I have things set up on the GPS

Tools / Settings / Navigation /

Primary Coordinate Systems: Lat/Lon

Primary Coordinate Type: Degree / Minute

 

I have the same thing set up for

Secondary Coordinate Systems: Lat/Lon

Secondary Coordinate Type: Degree / Minute

 

I am trying to enter

38 49.148N / 076 44.984W it saves as 38 49.148N / 076 44.983 - this is not the first time, it just will not save what I have entered, I’m not positive if it is always the W coordinate the will not hold the number but it very frustrating.

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I'm trying to input 39.96782 -105.23083 but when I save it, it saves as 40.36782 with the west point the same.

 

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What am I doing wrong???

You need to convert the DD.ddddd to DD MM.mmm. To do that, just multiply the .ddddd by 60, which will give you the MM.mmm. 0.96782 x 60 = 58.0692. 39.96782 degrees is equal to 39 degrees 58.069 minutes.

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