GPSmap60cs

[decdogg]

I’m trying to put in some coordinates manually from the site for a search the coordinates around here are

w064 then the next digits start with an 8 but the highest i can get in my gps is 5 any help would be appreciated

Have talked to Garmin and tried all their suggestions. WGS-84 and decimal degrees. Nothing works.

I’ve read all the forums and suggestions that I can find.

Any suggestions?

I’m to the point of buying a used gps from ebay to upload coordinates in the field.

Thanks for any and all help.

[Jeremy]

Sounds like you have your GPS position format set to hddd mm.mmm’ (hemisphere, degrees, minutes, decimal minutes). This is the common convention for coordinates coming from geocaching.com. With this convention, the largest first number after the whole degrees is 5, since there are 60 minutes in a degree.

But the coordinates you have are probably hddd.dddd (hemisphere, degrees, decimal degrees). So you either need to change the GPS position format to match the coordinates you have, or convert the coordinates you have to the format your GPS is expecting.

Sounds like Garmin gave you the right advice about changing your GPS position format to decimal degrees to allow this set of coordinates to be entered. (The current position format your 60cs is set to can be found by going to the Main Menu, then Setup, and then Units.)

I guess post the coordinates you have (EXACTLY as they come from whatever site your getting them from) and your GPS position format setting so we can help you more. Converting from ddd mm.mmm to ddd.dddd format and vice versa is trivial…

[decdogg]

position format is set at
hddd°mm.mmm’

The coordinates come from geocache.com

N43°47.939
W088°26.564

[Jeremy]

@decdogg wrote:

The coordinates come from geocache.com

N43°47.939
W088°26.564

Looks like you should be able to enter this set of coordinates into the GPS given your position format setting.

What 8 is not working for you? The 8 in W088°?

[decdogg]

If I wanted to change the 2 in 26.564 to an 8 it will not accept the anything above a 5.

I have been experimenting. Are you telling me the coordinates
Wxx°8x.xxx does not exist?

[Cheesehead Dave]

Nope. The minutes value can only be between 00.000 and 59.999. Add one more .001 and the degrees values goes up by one and the minutes value resets to 00.000.

[decdogg]

Thank you. (As I hang my head in shame.) I obviously know nothing about navigation. I just follow the little arrow. Here all along I thought something was going haywire. Now I need to go find a navigation class. Anyone know where I can find a good used sextant. 😆

Seriously. Thanks for all the help.

[Lostby7]

@decdogg wrote:

Thank you. (As I hang my head in shame). ….

That’s why there is the help section, so people like us can get a bone tossed to us when we space. The peeps here are a great asset when you have a question.

[decdogg]

Will I now be required to sacrifice a sheep or throw a virgin into the volcano? To appease the question answerer’s? 😆

[Lostby7]

@decdogg wrote:

Will I now be required to sacrifice a sheep or throw a virgin into the volcano? To appease the question answerer’s? 😆

I think setting up a puzzle cache will appease them….

[decdogg]

That will require many more questions. Which will mean more puzzle caches. Spiraling down until I disappear into a black hole.

[Team Deejay]

Just to answer the questions you didn’t ask yet.

1 degree = 60 minutes
1 minute = 60 seconds

Around here, a degree of latitude is about 69 miles. A degree of longitude is around 51 miles. So a minute of latitude is just over a mile and a minute of longitude is around 0.85 miles. Also, 0.001 minutes is around 6 feet in latitude and 4.5 feet in longitude.

To convert decimal degree coordinates (like N 42.12345 to “regular” geocaching coordinates multiply the fractional part of the number (.12345) to get the minutes, so .12345 * 60 = 7.407, so N42.12345 = N42 07.407.

If someone gives you coordinates that look like N42° 30′ 14.7″, this is degrees minutes seconds notation. To convert to “regular”, divide the seconds by 60 and add that to the minutes. So 14.7 / 60 = 0.245, so the coordinates are 42 30.245.

You may also run into coordinates that look like 16T 432345E 23456N. These are called UTM coordinates. You can convert them at jeeep.com. The 16T indicates a map page and the numbers are meters from the SW corner of the map.

Now that I’ve told you this, the very easiest way to make these conversion is to change the display format to the type of coordinates you have, then just navigate in that mode. If you need the actual numbers for some reason, change the display mode back to “regular” and your GPS will display them in that format instead.

Latitude (thats the North / South part) can range from 90°N (the North Pole) to 0° (The equator) to 90°S. If someone give you a latitude greater than 90, they are trying to trick you.

Longitude (Thats the east / west part) can 180°W (middle of the Pacific) to 0° (the prime meridian, runs through Greenwich, UK) to 180°E (which is the same as 180W). Starting at the prime meridian and going from east to west, the numbers start at 0, then go up to 180W. At 180W, the coordinates become E and start downward back to zero. So it goes 179W – 180 – 179E.

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[rogheff]

And if you cache in the SE part of the state, you may just run into a cache where they force you to do all of the above.

edited to include: that’s why I take “techcachers” with me aka: knoffer and Polskaqueen.

[Cheesehead Dave]

This site will convert between the different coordinate formats for you.

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