Difference between GPS and Google earth
Hey guys.
I've been fiddling around with quickmap (post elsewhere in the forum) and found it great for letting those back home know where I am.
So I tried punching in some coordinates and played around with it for a while. Then I put the coords for my home adress into google earth searchfield (the coords are taken from my Garmin GPS), and ended up on the other side of town. It's in the area, but quite a few kilometers off.
I have tried changing the options menu in google to degrees and what else you can change it to. But no matter what I change, the pointer indicates a coordinate that is much too different from what I get on my GPS. I would have thought it was just a question of sending the coords to my friends back home, and then they could see on google earth where I was. They'll propably not be any wiser if the coords I send are many kilometers off, but it just irks me that I can't get the same numbers on the two.
Can anyone see where I am going wrong? Or is google earth just that inacurate (doubt this)? I hope someone out there can help me with this.
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