[Az-Geocaching] Re: EasyGPS and coordinates being off

[Trisha Radley]

Technology is so complicated. Just use the coordinates, put in manually, and
a map. Simple, has never failed yet! :-)
~~trisha  aka Lightning



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Burkett" <wburkett@yahoo.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:46 PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Re: EasyGPS and coordinates being off


> > Is EasyGPS mucking up the coordinates, or is it my GPS?
>
> Karl, Scott may be on to something.  I've never used EasyGPS, but the
first
> time we took off to find a cache, nothing was where it was supposed to be.
> It turned out that my MapSource software and eMap unit weren't using the
> same grid format.  That is, MapSource was using hhdd mm.mmm, while my eMap
> was using jjdd mm'ss.s".  Or something like that.
>
> The important thing is to make sure they're talking the same language.
>
> > BTW, I still found all the caches :-)
>
> Ain't that a kick in the pants?
>
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