gps lat/long coordinates

Howdy, have a look on Google with something like 'australiain gps locations' it borught up 180,000 + hits for me. Surely there'll be something that meets your demands amongst that lot. Good luck.

bushranger69
I wouldn't worry about Google too much , I bought a Dick Smith book once , the Co-Ords were so far out it wasn't funny, People have the habit of using Google to much, good for finding out about Rabbits in China ,
These days I would suggest using ExplorOz , go to the PLACES tab above and type in the place you want or use the Trek Tab with 1000s of Co-Ords , Say you want Wolfe Creek Crater Co-Ords , then go here Wolfe Creek Crater

I'm sure you will find what you need here,


Doug

bushranger69

Try this site:

Geoscience place name search

Results on same site:

for Wolfe Creek Crater

Cheers

Before entering co-ordinates into your GPS do a little reading regarding "datums" and "co-ordinate" systems, lots of info here:

http://gpsinformation.net/

All co-ordinates (Lat/Long, UTM etc) are referenced to a datum and you _must_ set your GPS to the correct datum before entering any given co-ordinate otherwise your location will be incorrect.

By far the two most common datums used in Oz are AGD66 and WGS84 (GDA94 is identical to WGS84 - fapp). If you use co-ordinates created under WGS84 with AGD66 you'll be about 200m in error and vice versa.

An excellent booklet on map reading, published by auslig, is available here:

http://www.vicventurers.com/VicVenturers/

Click on "Map and compass guide"

Mike Harding