can i change my gps settings on a elite 5 chirp to eccept longitude and latitude coordinates in decimal? What ever is there now does not jive with any settings on earth explorer, they list in decimal,or degree min. sec ??
If I’m understanding you correctly, you want to find a spot on Google Earth and transfer the point into a waypoint on your Elite 5.
There are a couple of ways that I know of to do this and there may be more.
I’m not sure about changing coordinate systems on the Elite 5, but you can go into Google Earth and change the coordinate system of your view. Change the coordinate system on Google Earth to match the one on your Elite 5 and then you’ll be able to take a spot from Google Earth and enter it as a waypoint on your Elite 5.
Another option is to run the coordinates from Google Earth through the converter on this site to change them into the coordinate system you need: http://www.earthpoint.us/Convert.aspx
Hope it helps.
On my elite 5 where i imput coordinents it is formatted like this n 46* 29.179′ w -84* 28.566′ I see nothing on earthpoint or any site in this format? a coordinent that i would like to imput is lat 46* 29′ 12″ n lon 084* 28′ 44″ w Totally lost on this, any help would be appreciated, thanks ray
Go to GPS Setup on your Elite 5, select Coordinate System, select your desired coordinates, press enter, exit.
Your example on your elite 5 coordinates is degrees, minutes and thousands of a minute. What you want to enter is degrees, minute and seconds. They must match.
bullsneyes, how do i get to that on my gps, ive tried every combination in the menu and cant find anything where i can change the coordinents settings. I can get to where i impute coordinents but will only impute coordinents in the format like i posted earlier. I realize they must match
Not sure on the elite 5, you might try online at Lowrance.com under support to look at the operators manual, if you don’t have one. From my HDS 8 manual, press MENU twice to get to SETTINGS, select SYSTEM, select COORD SYSTEM, highlight desired option (degrees, degrees/minutes, deg/min/sec) and press enter.
From my LMS 525 manual:
Coordinate System Selection
The Coordinate System Menu lets you select the coordinate system to
use when displaying and entering position coordinates.
Menus for changing coordinate syst
em used to display positions.
To get to Coordinate System Selection
:
1. Press
MENU
|
MENU
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↓
to
GPS
S
ETUP
|
ENT
.
2. Press
↓
to
C
OORDINATE
S
YSTEM
|
ENT
.
This unit can show a position in
degrees (36.14952°); degrees, minutes
and thousandths of a minute (36° 28.700′); or degrees, minutes, seconds
and tenths of a second (36° 28′ 40.9″).
Thanks karry kyllo for the link to earth point converter. With that i was able to figure out and convert the gps coordinents that i have, to what my lowrance needed. Thanks bullsneyes for your help also. ray
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