GPS Waypoint Format

tintin · Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:09 am

personally I use ddmmss, as do most club members as far as I am aware. I think this is what all Garming comes with as standard settings as you say so it is just left that way for ease of use!

Wasif Ahmed · Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:25 am

This is something we need to look into and standardize so that it is possible to share waypoints in a universal format.

pseacraft · Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:43 pm

I usually use hddd mm.mmm as that is the default for geocaching and seems to be the default here also. Professionally, on the jobber, I use hddd mm ss.s.

Vivan · Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:59 pm

Personally I prefer to use hh dd mm no particular reason actually. However, I am a bit concerned about the awareness and unifying the use of Datum settings.

PR · Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:10 pm

Uncle · Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:57 pm

The standard used by UAEOFFROADERS Marshals is DD MM SSS. We have been using this for quite a long time and for consistency, I strongly advise everyone to use the same.

I do agree with PR's comments, however, I have never had any probs.

So, 24 34.179 is 24-degrees-34-minutes-and-179 seconds.

Mpenzi · Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:15 pm

I used the same as the Google Earth so for me logging way points from Google is simple.

Avan · Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:28 pm

I use degrees and decimal minutes ( hddd mm.mmm) as its the default for Geocaching so all my software on my PC viz Basecamp, Mapsource & GSAK along with Google Earth are all set to this format

pseacraft · Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:01 pm

You can set Google Earth to what ever format you want.

It is also not to difficult to change the settings on any of my garmins so i flex to what i am given.

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