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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ironbutcher_x" data-source="post: 5494585" data-attributes="member: 213076">to all who uses Garmin Mobile XT, set up your phones this way so you dont come to a halt when you try to use google earth/maps with garmin mobile xt as google earth/maps uses one setting and garmin uses another setting. am talking bout 5.900189,80.529785 format and 6°46'42.78"N  79°58'59.15"E formats. more accurate method is 5.900189,80.529785 which is set by load garmin. spanner button, System/Location Format set to hddd.dddd as opposed to hddd.mm.mmm u also need to config google earth to show as hddd.dddd format, google earth options/3d View/Show Lat/Lon as Decimal Degrees not as Degrees,Minutes,Seconds. coz, sometimes, when u save points in google earth/maps, the point marked is like this, 6°46'42.7832"N  79°58'59.1567"E - these are not the correct values but, so when u try to enter that to phone, u cant, as where u enter the seconds has only 3 nos, not 4. forgot to post this back then, hope it helps...</blockquote>

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