Last Post 19 Apr 2015 09:25 AM by
Kenneth Swineford
idaho springs colorado
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TRACE COLLINS
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12 Apr 2015 08:49 PM
When I enter the GPS coordinates that are in the claims book I get a location near Pine colorado . No where near the homack claim. Does anyone no anything about this? Is there a leprechauns cash of gold hidden there? Or is this book not at all accurate? Any info? Thanks
TRACE COLLINS
Greenhorn
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19 Apr 2015 07:47 AM
I purchased a garmin etrex legend gps and entered the coordinates and they were right on! Lesson learned, don't trust phone gps apps. Peace, trace
Kenneth Swineford
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19 Apr 2015 09:25 AM
Most likely the format you used to enter the coordinates was not correct for the device you were using you will see this happen a lot with google earth. Secondly phones use cell towers to triangulate the location based on how many towers you can hit off of, not satellite, and as such the margin of error can be feet to miles. A gps units information comes from many points in space.
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