Remember you need a negative sign for longitudes here in North America.
Positive longitudes are east of the prime Meridian. Positive latitudes are
north of the equator.
Charles
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On Aug 6, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Paul Bolduc <pcbolduc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good morning,
Yesterday while trying to create a point from a lon lat setting in decimal
format I don’t know how, but instead of being in NC it was created 5000 miles
away then when I redid it I was 9 thousand miles from home. Now these are
still there and I have not been able to get them off. Any help appreciated
and below is what I did so you can also tell me where I screwed up. Thank
you.
I did CTREl Y which brought up the lon lat selection with the edit fields. I
had read to use a space between the degrees and minutes so typed in 36 08959
then the lat on the next line. I hit next and gave it a name and hit OK. I
was out in the middle of an ocean and a bit too far to swim. What was wrong
with this example?
Have a great day,
Paul Bolduc
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