How to map StreetPilot III latitude/longitude on Google maps?

How can I take the latitude/longitude provided by the Garmin StreetPilot
III and plug it into Google maps to find the same location in the USA?

For example, what do I plug into google maps when my StreetPilot III reads:
N 32 49.230
W 115 07.061

What you have given is degrees and decimal minutes!
I simply copied your location and entered it in the search bar of
Google maps as a single line:
N 32 49.230 W 115 07.061
Then clicked the search botton and it placed an arrow with the
opportunity to do a, travel too, at the location! It also did a
conversion so you could see the location in decimal degrees and in
degrees minutes seconds!! Your given location appears to be out in
the sticks East of El Centro Calif???

hope this helps,
SKM

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:39:07 -0700, SKM-PSN#55 wrote:


Wow. I couldn't figure that out on my own. Everything I tried had failed
but this worked perfectly. Thank you.

I'm not sure why Garmin reports latitude and longitude in degrees and
decimal minutes (why not just decimal degrees or degrees/minutes/seconds)?

But, it is close (it's off by a ten or fifteen yards).

THANK YOU

Because Garmin decided that's how they wanted to display it, I guess.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like you can change the lat/long display
on the StreetPilot III, so you're stuck with decimal degrees.

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Interesting,,, all three Garmins that I have had (2 etrex models and
now the GPS60) allow me to choose the format of the display, including
UTM which I prefer and use most of the time,,,, even Google Earth
has the UTM option!!!! In fact, as near as I can determine, all of
the web maps use UTM as their underlying master grid????? (when you
see the maps being placed in their smaller squares on the screen, they
are being drawn to a UTM grid)!!! I like UTM because, as long as
you stay within a local UTM zone, it makes it simple to determine
distances,,, so many meters over and so many meters up, or
down,,, or use a calculator with square root function to find the
straight line distance,, which I never worry about when I'm hiking
anyway, ha!!!!!!
Your welcome, SKM