Coordinates

[sirron1]

Please forgive me for this newbee question.

My new garmin nuvi 67LM will not allow me to input all the necessary characters into my gps coordinates. The Garmin will only allow 18 characters when all of my sites are 20 characters.

 

any help will be extremely helpful.

 

Example: one of the sites I have to visit = 33.110352, -117.319295 it will exclude last numbers on both rows.

[robertlipe]

Since those last digits are way beyond the actual precision of consumer grade GPS, Garmin is basically telling you that you're wasting your time. If I've counted my digits right, you're looking at .11 meter accuracy when civilian GPS is good to 3-4 meters in fantasy conditions. You can dream about 4 inch precision from a Nuvi, but it's not reality.

 

The description at http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8650/measuring-accuracy-of-latitude-and-longitude is a good guideline. The follow-up comments are worth reading, too. More than five decimal places is pretty much noise for geocaching.