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GPS coordinates for Sat Nav

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  • 19-02-2010 1:56pm
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    melon_collie
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭


    I put the following coordinates into my sat nav yesterday. I got them from google maps on the internet.

    Latitude: 52.82815 Longitude: -6.22637

    This was suppoed to be my destination but the sat nav told me that I was 1100Km away?? Why is that? do I need to correct the coordinates in some way or am I doing something wrong?


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    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    What are the settings on your device to display latitudes & longitudes ?
    There are 3 settings .
    The picture attached shows them & the format they should be entered.


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    sesswhat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭sesswhat


    koolkid wrote: »
    What are the settings on your device to display latitudes & longitudes ?
    There are 3 settings .
    The picture attached shows them & the format they should be entered.

    You'll need to pick the first option for the OPs decimal degrees.

    In fact, by the margin of the error it looks like the longitude was entered as East (E) instead of West (W). A negative value indicates West for Longitude.


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    eirman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭eirman


    Yes that's exactly the error (E instead W)

    The "-" represents west of greenwich

    and on the first latitude figure a "-" represents S (south of the equator)


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