Newport Beach Shipwreck? Or structure fishing?

[Silbaugh4liberty]

Originally Posted by ceruleandrms

True story here though I think it was my fault. I entered some coordinates I got off the web to my gps then transferred them to google earth to confirm I was in the right area in Malibu. My coordinates took me to a cemetery in the Philippines.

Longitude needs a minus in front of the number. Also, Google maps reads it in decimal points, so if you're inputting the degrees, minutes and seconds, it's not going to work, you have to convert to decimal. Download gps converter for free on the Google store.

[alanw]

Originally Posted by Silbaugh4liberty

Longitude needs a minus in front of the number. Also, Google maps reads it in decimal points, so if you're inputting the degrees, minutes and seconds, it's not going to work, you have to convert to decimal. Download gps converter for free on the Google store.

Actually Google maps does read in degrees as well as decimal. It just needs to be in the correct format. For example take

33deg 27'40'N

117deg 45'50'W

and input it into Google maps as

33 27'40"N, 117 45'50"W and it works. You can use the degree ° sign instead of a space.

[Silbaugh4liberty]

Originally Posted by alanw

Actually Google maps does read in degrees as well as decimal. It just needs to be in the correct format. For example take

and input it into Google maps as

Sweet, thanks for the info

[ceruleandrms]

Originally Posted by Silbaugh4liberty

Longitude needs a minus in front of the number. Also, Google maps reads it in decimal points, so if you're inputting the degrees, minutes and seconds, it's not going to work, you have to convert to decimal. Download gps converter for free on the Google store.

Ok cool, thank you

[bus kid]

http://www.navionics.com/en/webapp

http://southcoastdivers.com/php/ConvertGPStoDecimal.php

http://www.itouchmap.com/latlong.html

google earth is helpful too turn on the dive sites
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