Thanks to all of you..for a quick reply. I just figured it out its nothing wrong with google maps and the way i am plotting the marker. its just about the GPS device that provides such data. Once again thanks for such a quick response.
On Jan 22, 12:21 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is > > Latitude = 53.086400 > > Longitude = -7.290657 > > > My confusion is that should i have to create a marker with this lat/ > > long or i have to do any conversion on the lat/long before plotting > > the marker. > > That's exactly what Google expects, decimal degrees > > First be sure your source data really is in decimal degrees, and not > in DMS degrees/minutes/seconds or DD degrees/decimal minutes. This > may not be obvious in say GPS derived data. > > Then you need to know the coordinate reference systems. It is > possible to have decimal degrees from a diferent baseline, Google > always expects WGS84. Again something like a GPS may be giving you a > localised version. > > cheers, Ross K --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
