How search for a location using GPS coordiantes?

mackit

New to Windy. I'm trying to enter GPS coordinates in the search thingy, then when that location pops up, add a favorite at that location. I know how to add a fav once the crosshairs are over the location. But when I enter the GPS cord (eg, 27.1 -83.1) and hit done or return, nothing happens except the search bar goes away. Thanks

A little more experimenting....

if I enter 27-84 the following choices pop up:

none of which are what I entered
if I enter 27-83, the following nonsense choices pop up:

Is there any way to actually get the crosshairs located at a specific location using gps coord so I can drop a favorite there?

If it matters, I'm trying to use windy for offshore weather & wave heights. My plan is to drop favorites in the areas I generally go and then put the crosshairs over the favs so I can check the conditions at various locations.

Thanks again!

idefix37

@mackit
See this related post to enter coordinates in the mobile app:

https://community.windy.com/topic/24670/how-to-enter-coordinates-manually?_=1695401176946

mackit

@idefix37

Thanks! I did get it to work on win 10 and iphone 13 ver 16.6.1 by using this format:

36°59'21.2"N 84°13'53.3"W

Being verbose for others in the future:
I replaced, number for number, the coordinate I wanted and it worked. On the iphone long press on brings up the degree symbol, on a win 10 physical keyboard, I just copied the symbol from another post. The " (double tick) and ' (single tick)from both keyboards worked. There is one space in the entire coordinate string. I used two decimal points as shown and used a following zero if I didn't have a number to use after the decimal point.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to rename a fav.

Thanks for the help!

idefix37

@mackit
In the iPhone, open your list of Favorites by clicking on your picture profile. Then press the small pencil on right side of each favorites to rename them.

mackit

@idefix37

Thanks again!