camper contact co ordinates

[mark73]

Good Morning all, could anyone please help a numpty, been trying to enter co ordinates from camper contact in to sat nav but it doesn't seem to formulate, tried to go into settings to make the numbers fit but there is a lot of different sort of co ordinates in menu i.e. Swedish, French, English etc. can anyone enlighten me to which setting I need. N 48.55184, E 8.49471 N 48°33'07", E 8°29'41" Thank you Mark

 

[tacr2man]

what sat nav do you have ?
this should help your understanding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_conversion
and then this one http://www.csgnetwork.com/gpscoordconv.html

 

[mark73]

Thanks tacr2man it's a garmin, but not sure of model number. it's in the van at the moment, but will look on that link, much appreciated

 

[Stealaway]

Where are you trying to find?

 

[mark73]

Hi Stealaway, no where in particular (although i am planning on going to Germany next year after reading your comments) those co ordinates i posted was just a sample from camper contact

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[Lenny HB]

Thanks tacr2man it's a garmin, but not sure of model number. it's in the van at the moment, but will look on that link, much appreciated

Garmin uses decimal format by default, so it's the firtones you have listed.

 

[mark73]

Thanks Lenny, i probably need to re set it after messing about with it. but what's " the firtones" ( i did say i was a numpty)

 

[icantremember]

" the firtones"

I guess he meant "first ones"

 

[Lenny HB]

I did, N 48.55184, E 8.49471

 

[two]

There are different ways to put in coordinates. Some satnavs will accept any, others may be more particular:

All degree: N 48.55184° E 8.49471°

Degree & minutes: N 48° 33.11” E 8° 29.68”

Degree, minutes & seconds: N48° 33” 7’ E 8° 29” 41’

There are 60 minutes in a degree (and 60 seconds in a minute).

If you are west of the meridian, the easting can be shown as negative or preceded with W.

So E -8° is the same as W 8°, E 8.49471° = W -8.49471°

Similarly above and below the equator, N 48.55184° = S -48.55184°

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[mark73]

thanks for all your replies, much appreciated

 

[Alistair33]

With ours,when you enter the address as a decimal, eg 48.55184, you need to put a degree symbol after it 48.55184°