Lat and Long?

[Retterath]

When i was out hunting in wyoming my wife followed me on the delorme inreach and now I'm taking those coordinates and trying to plug them into google earth and its very confusing. For example inreach is giving me Lat of 45.123 and Longitude of 100.123 How do i get this so i can input this into google earth that would be in format like this
45deg 32' 14.67"N
100deg 25' 47.16" W

i had a similar post but was converting deg and min to deg min and seconds.
Just the lat and long single number is confusing me. Thanks guys

 

[TimberJunkie]

When i was out hunting in wyoming my wife followed me on the delorme inreach and now I'm taking those coordinates and trying to plug them into google earth and its very confusing. For example inreach is giving me Lat of 45.123 and Longitude of 100.123 How do i get this so i can input this into google earth that would be in format like this
45deg 32' 14.67"N
100deg 25' 47.16" W

i had a similar post but was converting deg and min to deg min and seconds.
Just the lat and long single number is confusing me. Thanks guys

Great question. There are several different formats for the same thing. The coordinate from the Delorme is in a format called decimal degrees. The format Google Earth defaults to in Degrees minutes seconds. You can change the settings in good earth under one of the tabs to use the format you have.

Another solution is to get on the old interwebs and google lat/long connverter. There are many out there and they all seem pretty easy to use. Just type in what you have and then choose the desired output format.

In the future, change the settings on gps unit to read the units format you like best. I work for the BLM and everything we do is in degrees minutes seconds. Or UTM. They all work as long as you convert them to what you need.

Good luck.

 

[tdcour]

I plug in lat and long in my fields with decimal degrees like what you have now with no issues. You can type in your lat and long into the search box and it should pull it up. Mine does every time... just type this in 45.123, -100.123 and it will pull it up. If it goes to the opposite side of the globe, add or remove the - to the second set of numbers. Google Earth shows the coordinates on the bottom of the screen, so if you don't change your preferences you should see it in the format you want it in if that is how you have your preferences in Google Earth depending on where your mouse is floating around on the screen.

37.982159, -97.516219 is one of my research farms here in Kansas. This is also read as 37deg58'55.80" N 97deg30'53.57"W. As an FYI, you can also go to tools and import files to see tracks and stuff like that if it will read your gps files.

 

[Retterath]

thanks a lot guys that will help me a lot

 

[NapaPaul]

Great question. There are several different formats for the same thing. The coordinate from the Delorme is in a format called decimal degrees. The format Google Earth defaults to in Degrees minutes seconds. You can change the settings in good earth under one of the tabs to use the format you have.

Another solution is to get on the old interwebs and google lat/long connverter. There are many out there and they all seem pretty easy to use. Just type in what you have and then choose the desired output format.

In the future, change the settings on gps unit to read the units format you like best. I work for the BLM and everything we do is in degrees minutes seconds. Or UTM. They all work as long as you convert them to what you need.

Good luck.

Good technical response

 

[TimHVA]

i've stared using UTM ...seems less complicated to me anyway