Different coardinates?

[andy]

HI all,

New to Geo-caching and have a quick question. On a cache page the longitude and latitude coardinates are at the top of that page. So when i download the LOC waypoint files why are the coardinates different than the other previous ones? <_<

[Bill D (wwh)]

It could be that whatever you&#39;re using to view the .loc file is set to a different format for the co-ordinates.

Geocaching uses the format DD MM.mmm, which is degrees and decimal minutes, e.g. N 50 45.250 W 001 48.500

Another common format is DD MM SS, which is degrees minutes and seconds. In this format the above co-ords would show as N 50 45 15 W 001 48 30.

If that&#39;s the problem, you need to change to DD MM.mmm to see the co-ords the way cache pages display them.

[andy]

Thanks Bill D,

the penny has finally dropped

Andy