Re: Why doesn't GPSmap 76C convert to British Grid?

From: Stuart Middleton-White (SPAMLESSstuwhite_at_verizon.net)
Date: 11/27/04


Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:45:48 GMT

Bruce Stemplewski <Bruce.Stemplewski@nospamstempsoft.com> wrote:

> I have some waypoints entered in to the GPS under degrees WGS 84.

Are those waypoints in the UK? I selected the British Grid
(automatically selected "Ord Srvy GB" datum) in my 76CS and my US
waypoints didn't show any position (i.e. just dashes). I created a
waypoint in the UK and it then worked.

> In fact it does not seem to convert to any of the Datums or Postion
> formats that I tried other than degrees, degrees/minutes and
> degrees/minutes/seconds.

I have no idea what you mean.

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