Sharing waypoints

[Loud640]

Hi, I'm hoping to share a few important waypoints with people in my local community, some have a GPS and some don't.

Also, some peoples GPS don't seem to have the ability to use lat/lon coordinates .
So I am looking for a solution. Do you know of a good web map site that allows me to enter lat/lon coords? At least they can get a map that way.

Thanks
Neil

 

[Deleted account W]

Hi, I'm hoping to share a few important waypoints with people in my local community, some have a GPS and some don't.

Also, some peoples GPS don't seem to have the ability to use lat/lon coordinates .
So I am looking for a solution. Do you know of a good web map site that allows me to enter lat/lon coords? At least they can get a map that way.

Thanks
Neil

Hope this helps

 

[Loud640]

Thanks for the link it looks just what I was after. I find that if I put my coords in the results are several miles out.

I'm wondering if I need to change datum. I am currently using WGS 84

 

[Mzokk]

If you change your map Datum to European 1950 or 1979 in preferences in mapsource(under the EDIT menu) your WGS84 waypoints will automatically be converted into these datums and visa versa, if you have mapsource configured to use these datums they will automatically be converted into WGS84 when you switch back. It should say on the paper map somewhere which datum has been used I think most Spanish maps use one or other of the above. Hope that makes sense.

 

[Clive]

In preferences see what grid format you have - for those sites it needs to be Lat/Lon hddd.ddddd and don't forget to enter West as -ve as required
e.g. centre of Alicante is N38.34409 W0.48044 on Mapsource so you would use

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=38.3440&lon=-0.4804&scale=25000&icon=x

or

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.ad...mal&latitude=38.3440&longitude=-0.4804&zoom=8

 

[Loud640]

Thanks chaps, I'll have a little play