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I am trying to find some hidden keys placed by our local 4x4 shop. The co-ordinates have a decimal point at the end of them and I cant enter the decimal into the gps.
I found 2 hiding places ( keys were gone though ) and the gps was 15-20m out.
Does anyone have a Magellan Explorist XL, am I using the right datum?
WGS84 Lat/Lon Min/Sec Km/Kmh
Would that Decimal point put the co-ordinate point be out by 15-20m?
might help if you enter it as Deg and decimal minutes instead of Deg Min and Dec Secs.
Yes maybe their gps and my gps gave slight different readings in opposite directions.
I just tried entering it in as Deg and Dec Mins and it came up about 300m out.
Mabye they should have stated what datum they used or maybe that's part of the challenge to sort that out ourselves.
The guys that found the keys was one team of 3 guys and they reportedly used a cell phone to find them.
I cant find an app that will do that on my new Samsung S4 phone.
I re entered it in and rounded off the decimal point and it was closer so I will run with that. cant wait for 5pm Friday now, I will report back how I go.
Hi Ray, I just had a play with my old car GPS and it lets you choose the method of entry for coordinates. I set it to: DD MM SS.S and it appears to have worked.
Third last key looks to be in Forest, near Irish town
Hi Lucas, my gps wont allow for a Des point or at least I cant find a way to do it.
The key near my house was number 4 key. All 6 keys have been found now. 6 more locations are to be released on Friday.
Below is what came up on my gps
Key 1 - Near ETC coffee shop other side of Sassafras
key 2 - Port Sorell area
key 3 - Spreyton area
key 4 - Fern Glade ( I found that spot ) Yes it was 700m from my back door
key 5 - Rocky Cape ( I found that spot )
key 6 - Black River
Key5
Last edited by Trolatron; 12th November 2013 at 11:05 AM.