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Confused - Where am I ?

Discodog · 2011-09-29 11:20:38

So my Nokia N95 gives my GPS co ordinates & shows me in the correct place on Nokia Maps. However Google Earth shows the same co ordinates as 20 miles from my location ! Where am I - who is right ?

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29-09-2011 12:20pm

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Discodog

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So my Nokia N95 gives my GPS co ordinates & shows me in the correct place on Nokia Maps. However Google Earth shows the same co ordinates as 20 miles from my location !

Where am I - who is right ?

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#2 29-09-2011 2:15pm
Alun

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Are you sure you're not confusing the various methods of representing latitude and longitude when transferring the coordinates? There's ...

Degrees, minutes, seconds, e.g. 53°10'41.56" N, 06°19'55.38" W

Degrees, decimal minutes e.g. 53°10.6926' N, 006°19.9230' W

Decimal degrees e.g. 53.17821 N, 6.33205 W

.. all of which are the same place (Kippure TV mast, if you're interested!)

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#3 29-09-2011 11:51pm
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I could well be I had assumed that degrees were degrees !

Thanks for the help.

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