latitude longitude in mins secs

[nigeldodd]

My Android auto Google Maps stops working when it loses a 3g signal and I am left with the built-in satnav. It is quite painful typing stuff into that and so I have not fully explored how clever it is in finding places from typed-in information. Google, being a search engine, is, by comparison, very good.

Getting to the point, I think the built-in satnav will understand latitude and longitude but it uses the rather arcane degrees, minutes, seconds specification rather than decimal degrees, (tenth, hundreds etc.) similar to Google.

Does anybody know if there is a hidden setting somewhere to get it to use and understand decimal degrees?

[Guzzle]

Dunno i'm afraid. Most tend to go off a postcode these days and I find the built-in nav more than good enough for that. Added to which, the built-in nav can display in the AID whereas Google maps cannot.

[nigeldodd]

Yes, postcodes are fine in populated areas. Historically one postcode was good for (I think) 15 houses so in rural areas one postcode can cover a large area of land. Better to use lat and long or similar as Google does.

[Mike J]

Lat & Long in mins. secs. and degrees is the accepted norm for all the navigation I have done.
Conversion from decimal is available online or you can make the pencil and paper calculation yourself.

The incar system is reasonably accurate but if your near any Law enforcement or Military establishments the mk1 eyeball is often better.

[fredgroves]

My Android auto Google Maps stops working when it loses a 3g signal and I am left with the built-in satnav.

You can download maps on your phone to use offline with Google maps.

Its usually something I used to do when abroad to save data usage, but works wherever.

It will later prompt you to update your downloaded maps about every 30 days, which you can do over wifi or wherever you have signal.