Variable Coordinate June 12, 2020
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If in a multi or mystery geocache not all variables for the solution of the final coordinates can or could be determined, it is sometimes a good idea to simply look at all the open options, maybe even visualized on a map. In this way, some options can often be excluded (Of course, the possibilities should be very manageable. Nobody benefits from seeing 1000 possible coordinates).

The Variable Coordinate tool can be used as a stand-alone tool. But it shows its real power in combination with the formula solver. If a formula could already be filled with some values there, you can copy the partially filled formula and paste it into the Variable Coordinate tool. The missing values can be interpolated here.

Interpretation of non-three-digit milli minutes in DEG format I
Interpretation of non-three-digit milli minutes in DEG format I
It may happen that the selected DEG format does not contain the usual three decimal places as in the example. It can be more or less.



There are two possibilities of interpretation for this. Either one interprets the C = 6 in the example (BC) as 6 milli minutes (=B06), or rather as the mathematically more correct decimal x.B6 (=B60) (in the example the first 0 is the B and does not come from the padding. This is only about the last two digits provided by C). This has always been an ongoing and very heated discussion. The GCWizard offers here the possibility to choose between both interpretations using an option switch (only for DEG format!).
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