[Az-Geocaching] EasyGPS and coordinates being off

[Brian Cluff]

Sounds like an EasyGPS problem.  You might want to play around with it a
little more and if you can't get it to upload the correct coords to your GPS
then submit a bug report to the EasyGPS people.  I'll bet that they already
know though, that is a pretty serious problem... but I try not to assume
anything.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Smith" <threadhead@mac.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 12:45 PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] EasyGPS and coordinates being off


> Please bear in mind that I am a beginner... that being said, I d/l the
> entire waypoint file for all of AZ from the www.azgeocaching.com side.
What
> nice timesaver!
>
> So I was off this weekend to find my first caches. Much to my surprise, I
> had great difficulty. None of the caches I found were anywhere close to
> where my GPS told me they should be. Most were 300 or so feet off.
>
> So when I got home I checked the coordinates on the web site
> (geocaching.com) and low-and-behold, by GPS did not have the same
> coordinates. So I checked the raw data in the EasyGPS file and they
appeared
> to be correct, but not so in my GPS. I double checked and my GPS is set
for
> WGS84 datum.
>
> Is EasyGPS mucking up the coordinates, or is it my GPS?
>
> BTW, I still found all the caches :-)
>
>
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