Google Earth GPS

Jack,

I put the GPS co ordinance of my home in Google Earth and it was very close.

I have also done this with a few other places and again they seem very close.

Wayne

try it near where you live?

Bushpig, Disregard all this if you already know it.
You will get better accuracy if you get the the map onto its 50 metre resolution before right clicking and marking the point. Use the "sattelite" selection, rather than "map', turning off the "show labels" box. If you switch from "maps' to "sattelite" you'll see that quite often the road lines on "map" don't actually follow the roads that are on the "sattelite" view. A good eample of this is the shortcut road which runs from 14 kms west of Eulo, in a NW direction to the Quilpie/Thargomindah rd. Have a look at the "map" road at this junction and compare it to the "sattelite"
road. Miles out. The Plenty Highway is the same in parts.

How do you convert these digitised L/L points to minutes and seconds?
If you make routes with waypoints on them in Google, how do you save them as maps. It seesms to just save them as"locations"
and I would like to pull up the map again with the interveening mileages on them?

I have an antitheft tracking device in my Nissan and when I dial it up to get it's location and then feed those co-ordinates into Google maps it shows my nissan sitting in the front drive exactly where it is parked - (in fact when I swithc to sattelite view I can ACTUALLY see it parked there - so at least where I live the sattelite image is no more than 12 months old :-))- so allowing for the day to day vagaries (wander) of the sattelites I would say (tongue in cheek here) it will be close enough that it doesnt matter :-)))

Not getting at you here - but it makes me laugh when i see ppl saying GPS lat /long is crap - it 'only' gets to within 5 - 10 -15 (doesnt really matter for our use) meters - geeze if I cant SEE my car, or SEE the track or SEE the town or SEE the city from 5-10-15 meters away then I dont need a GPS.

I need GLASSES :-) :-)