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lat/long default settings for Garmin Nuevi 265WT (or others probably)

 
Fri, 07/10/2009 - 2:36pm

First a big thanks to everybody for the great information on this site.

I am a new owner of a GPS, a Garmin Nuevi (265WT)and just recently joint this wondeful community. I downloade several of the POI's in you files and wanted to do some for myslef to contribute. What I noted is that one of the existing POI is slighly of the real location that I know for sure. I have the same with my custom inputs. I am not so familiar with the concept of long/lat settings but know that they do affect the real location if they are not the same.

Question 1: Does anybody know what the default settings in long/lat (decimal degrees, minutes degree seconds etc)are on the Garmin and how (if at all) they may be changed?

Question 2: On your site POI's what are the long/lat inputs you require?

Thanks to all of you for your help on this!

Jurgen

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Fri, 07/10/2009 - 2:52pm

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jurgw wrote:

First a big thanks to everybody for the great information on this site.

I am a new owner of a GPS, a Garmin Nuevi (265WT)and just recently joint this wondeful community. I downloade several of the POI's in you files and wanted to do some for myslef to contribute. What I noted is that one of the existing POI is slighly of the real location that I know for sure. I have the same with my custom inputs. I am not so familiar with the concept of long/lat settings but know that they do affect the real location if they are not the same.

First of all, let me say welcome to the POI-factory.

jurgw wrote:

Question 1: Does anybody know what the default settings in long/lat (decimal degrees, minutes degree seconds etc)are on the Garmin and how (if at all) they may be changed?

Garmin uses decimal degrees. I also uses up to 5 decimal places of precision based on WGS-83 which is the international standard for latitude and longitude. The unit cannot be set to use other positional notation such as degrees, minutes and seconds.

jurgw wrote:

Question 2: On your site POI's what are the long/lat inputs you require?

Thanks to all of you for your help on this!

Jurgen

The standard comma separated variable (CSV) file uses 4 fields. They are:

1. Longitude
2. Latitude
3. POI Name (what is at the location), and
4. an optional comment field.

The fourth field is not required, but can provide additional information regarding the point such as telephone numbers, street address, city, postal code or other information. Other than the first 2 items being numeric data there are no conventions for the remaining fields. You will find that field 3, POI Name is limited to the number of characters your device can display on a single line. For most units this is about 20 characters.

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Fri, 07/10/2009 - 3:11pm

long/lat format

grin Thanks so much for your help!

Sat, 07/11/2009 - 9:49am

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a_user wrote:

Garmin uses decimal degrees. I also uses up to 5 decimal places of precision based on WGS-83 which is the international standard for latitude and longitude. The unit cannot be set to use other positional notation such as degrees, minutes and seconds.

Latitude and longitude can be input/displayed in three different formats on a nuvi using Where to, Coordinates. The selected format is also used on the satellite screen to display the current location.

Formats are:

  • h ddd° mm' ss.s" = Degrees, Minutes, Seconds (e.g. 45° 38' 29.8")

  • h ddd° mm.mmm' = Degrees, Minutes, Decimal Minutes (e.g. 43° 38.496)

  • h ddd.ddddd° = Degrees, Decimal Degrees (e.g. 43.64160°)

For the POI Loader program (used to transfer POIs to the nuvi) only the Degrees, Decimal Degrees format is accepted in input files (CSV and GPX).

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Sun, 07/12/2009 - 4:50pm

Long/lat default settings for Garmin

grin Thanks so much for your helful input that resolved some mystery for me. I did see my home location in the degree, minutes,decimal minutes format and thought that this it what the Garmin is reading. I just changed it with the help from your answer to degrees, decimal degrees format and with this will be better prepared to record the locations of interest.

Thanks again!

Jurgen