Help ! Can somebody change eastings northings to deg, min, sec please
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Member - Willie , Sydney.
Easting (MGA) 310375
Northing (MGA) 7571590
Could somebody please change these to Deg,Min,Sec.
Where or how do you do this ? My Oziexplorer does not seem to have the option of Northings / Eastings .
Thanks a lot,
Willie
Reply By: Member - joc45 (WA) - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 17:26
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 17:26
Check in Ozi for "UTM"
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 17:31
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 17:31
It is on UTM now. I'm confused.
Thanks
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Reply By: B1B2 - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 17:47
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 17:47
G'day Willie,
Google Easting Northing conversions. You are missing the zone number. It will be 49 to 56. It is under UTM in Garmin or Mapsource as
well. Where you can change minutes and seconds to decimal degrees etc.
I am sure all units will have this.
Cheers,
Bill
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:40
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:40
Bill, that was not supplied so I will try both to see if it's about where it's meant to be.
Thanks,
Willie.
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Reply By: Member - Chris & Debbie (QLD) - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 17:48
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 17:48
Willie
The only way I can find in Ozi is to place a new waypoint somewhere
on the map and then 'edit position' and set postion format to UTM.
You can then add your UTM co-ordinates and will then show them
in Deg Min Sec.
Hope this helps
Chris
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:37
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:37
Cunning thanks. I did that and it is all good.
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Reply By: Member - Alan H (QLD) - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 18:35
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 18:35
My Oziexplorer screen shows both degrees and the UTM
grid number in the upper left border.??????
Alan
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:39
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:39
Alan,
I can see that - now that you have pointed it out !
Thanks,
Willie.
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Follow Up By: Member - Chris & Debbie (QLD) - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:58
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:58
FYI incase you did not know, you can right click on these co-ordinates or datum and change to a different type. This does not change your configuration settings and will revert to you normal settings when restarting the program.
This is an easy way of entering different co-or systems when placing new waypoints without having to open and change the configuration.
Chris
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:06
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:06
Thanks Chris. Willie
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Reply By: Member - Alan H (QLD) - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 18:46
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 18:46
Willie
we don't know which zone but in zone 55 the answer is
21 57 01S 145 09 48 E
Alan
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Follow Up By: Member - Alan H (QLD) - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 18:53
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 18:53
In zone 56 the
grid reference is out to sea of the Central Queensland coast.
Alan
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:57
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:57
Hi Alan,
At the moment , if I right click on the waypoint and go to PROPERTIES and then EDIT POSITION, The options are , UTM or Deg + min and a decimal point of the min ( but not deg, min and sec)
Why doesnt it come up with UTM / deg, min and sec which is what I want.
This is even after I have been into CONFIGURATION - MAPS - LAT LONG DISPLAY and changed it to Deg,Min,Sec and saved it.
However it comes up with Deg,Min,Sec up the top with the UTM read-out and also when you hover the cursor over the waypoint.
What am I doing wrong ?
Thanks,
Willie.
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Reply By: Ozhumvee - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 18:59
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 18:59
Most GPS's (Garmin etc) will do the conversion, create the waypoint in the gps with what you have and then change the display to deg min & sec or whatever you want.
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:42
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:42
Yep, OK - thanks Peter.
Get my new 200 next week. It goes to ARB tomorrow from the dealer.
Mike
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Reply By: The Explorer - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 21:20
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 21:20
Hello Willie
There are a number of ways to display/convert coords in OziExplorer. If you have a waypoint already entered then you can open up the waypoint list and toggle between UTM and lat long.
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As others have mentioned, the UTM cords you have provided are incomplete (Zone information is also required...a datum would also be nice as
well) so difficult to guess the area they are from.
It is also possible to export data from OziExplorer in almost any datum in UTM or lat/long.
Good luck
Cheers
Greg
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 21:43
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 21:43
woops my mistake you stated MGA so that mean datum is GDA94....though zone is still a mystery...
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:04
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:04
Hi Greg,
I am a clutz. I have never ever opened that list you show above. I have found it now, so thanks a lot.
Willie.
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Reply By: Gramps - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 21:25
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 21:25
C'mon blokes ! He's not going to give you the zone number is he ? It's probably another hot tip for his gold
fossicking LOL
Regards
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:32
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:32
OOPS !
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Follow Up By: Member - Fred B (NT) - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:32
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:32
well that would be easy to find.... he never goes more than 10 kilometers from
home.... lol..... otherwise he couldn't find his way back.... lol... SO IT WILL BE THE CO-ORDS FOR HIS LOCAL BANK.... lol... (:
regards
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:58
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:58
Wy are people so unkind to me ?
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:06
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:06
Was that Threadbear
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Follow Up By: Member - Fred B (NT) - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:50
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 15:50
Glad to see you still have a sense of humour Willie.... Hava great day...
regards
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Reply By: Member - Mike DID - Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 23:31
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 at 23:31
UTM Zones are 6 degrees wide, which means that Eastings and Northings recur every 6 degrees i.e about every 500km.
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 00:32
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 00:32
...only the eastings "recur" across Australia. Northings would only be repeated if you travelled to the northern hemisphere.
Cheers
Greg
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Reply By: obee1212 - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:04
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:04
I would keep everything in utm. It is in metres and easy to see what the easting northing is rela tive to kilometres. There are good reasons for using degrees when navigating at sea but driving on land and converting sea
miles to your odometer kilometres would suck. Even the eastings are corrected from zone to zone so you dont have to worry what latitude you are in when you change degrees of longtude to distance.
KISS
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Reply By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:36
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:36
Thank you all very much for your help. I am a lot wiser now.
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