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I enetered the coordinates into my GPS for a new cache, but the map doesn match up with the actual location. What am I doing wrong?

April 26, 2017actual cache coordinates doing GPS location map

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I enetered the coordinates into my GPS for a new cache, but the map doesn match up with the actual location. What am I doing wrong?

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Most likely the coordinates are in the wrong format or datum. See above question on converting format and make sure your GPSR uses WGS-84. There is, however, a slight variation in the Topozone maps when linked from the Geocaching site. The Topozone website uses NAD-27, a different coordinate datum.