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Converting Gps Co-Ordinates For Use On Map

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MTbowels | 20:56 Wed 28th Jun 2017 | Technology
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I recently spent a few days in Tenby, West Wales and playing around with a GPS app on my phone, I came up with a set of co-ordinates that apparently revealed my precise position. The difficulty, I'm having is finding a mapping facility on the web where I can enter these two sets of figures, to show where I was on a large scale map.
I can't see the facility to do so on Google maps and some others that I've tried. I think the problem may be down to the format of the figures as sometimes a box appears that states that it can't understand the figures. I'm beginning to think I may need to convert the figures to a different format before entering them. All I'm after is a large scale map with an arrow/comma pointing to the position I was at. Anyhow the co-ordinates are:
51 41 624N
4 42 167W
That's it! The figures are precisely as shown on the app. What mapping service will show me the position on a map when I plug in those figures?

Thank you for your help
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Your coordinates aren't clear. If they're in the format "degrees, minutes, seconds" the last figure can't be bigger than 59 (because there are 60 seconds in a minute).

So I'm guessing that they're in the format "degrees, minutes", where the minutes have been divided decimally, rather than into seconds. i.e. there are decimal points missing from what you've written, with the coordinates actually being 51 degrees, 41.624 minutes North and 4 degrees 42.167 minutes West.

Therefore you need this search line on Google maps:
51 41.624, -4 42.167
(Note the minus sign in there because you're using West instead of East).

i.e. this:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/51%C2%B041'37.4%22N+4%C2%B042'10.0%22W/@51.6937333,-4.704972,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d51.6937333!4d-4.7027833

(Switch to satellite view to get the best picture)
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That's brilliant. Thank you Chris, that was indeed the precise spot I was standing at when I noted the reading.

I'll pay more attention to the figures the next time I use the app. Thank you again.
I thought that there was a website that converted coordinate formats, somewhere. Try a websearch.
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OG, I did try a websearch but all the websites I came across failed to recognise the format of the co-ordinates. Buenchico has pointed out why this was the case : I had inadvertently omitted the decimal points whilst entering the co-ordinates.

No website can be expected to show me the position I was at based upon incomplete data - and none did!
Try this . . . you can load co-ordinates, addresses to Lat Long and DMS to decimal degrees etc and convert them into the format you want:-

http://www.latlong.net/
Your co-ordinates will look like this . . .

http://tinypic.com/r/2eprlz5/9

You can then zoom in as map or satellite. You can also get street view when available.

Also, don't forget that for West of Greenwich Meridian you need to include a minus (- )sign (long) and for South of the Equator a minus (-) lat.

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