locodave Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 I bought an app the other day for the iphone. http://www.flytomap.com/ftm/index.aspx If it actually worked I think its a decent solution in the meantime. The ccmpass don't work all the time. But what I really want is to enter spots in the system. For example, Box Head: Latitude: -33 32.549 Longitude: 151 20.420 I have two questions, why is there a minus infront of LATITUDE? Second, when I go to enter my bearing on the app, i can only inser two numbers for Latitude ie. XX.XX.XX As you can see, for box head there are three digits on the end '549'. Will that '9' make a difference? Should it have an extra digit there? Any help appreciated, thanks Oh BTW I was so angry last night I deleted the app lol, so I can't show you screen shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisg Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Dave Its a minus figure because we are southern hemisphere latitude, northern being a positive number. Equally a negative longitude is a location west of the prime meridian With the numbers your Box Head numbers are in decimal format and the software wants degrees/mintues/seconds which really only affect's the last numbers. Hence .549 is actually 32.94 secs (60 secs x .549) which you would make 33 for your app. eg -33 32 33 I'll let you try the longitude so you can see how it works. Run the app again and see where it takes you. C. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locodave Posted October 1, 2010 Author Share Posted October 1, 2010 Well the website has it as a negative, but my book has it without the negative. I see what you mean now, I didn't know about the seconds, thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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