Map Question

[gregnwtf]

NOAA Office of Coast Survey. Go to this website and you will find several charts. #14830 is the westend. You can also buy one of the Hot Spot charts and some numbers for gps such a bouys, lighthouses, reefs and channels will be listed. Look at how the Lat and Long numbers are on the chart. So if you hear that I am fishing at 48 and 00. Thats 48 north and 00 west, and thats a few miles due north of " C can". These are the middle numbers on GPS. You can also hear maybe 34 and 17. Is this for sure in the west end of the lake ? No, its actually north of Vermilion near the sandbar. The more you study a good chart and all the info and landmarks, the better the GPS numbers are to figure out a location.

[Capt Juls]

If you have a smartphone, you can download the Navionics Mapping App. Check it out.

I have this app on my iPhone and really like it.

It's very user friendly too.

http://www.navionics.com/en/marine-lakes-iphone

Juls

[Throttles Down]

This might be what your looking for, except when most of us are giving coordinates we are using degrees-and minutes where this chart is decimal degrees :example: the post might read was at 27.6 x 21.9 , which in the central basin would actually be 41 degrees 27.6 min x 82 degrees 21.9 minutes[most of us just use the minutes]
To convert to decimal degrees take the minutes 27.6 and divide by 60 which would be .46 and 21.9 divided by 60=.365
41 degrees 27.6 minutes = 41.46
82 degrees 21.9 minutes =82.365

in this case would be the Vermilion dumping grounds

Cursor location is displayed on bottom of chart in decimal lat. long


http://marina.geowake.com/map/index....fullscreenexit