Latitude and longitude position
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I have been using this app for years and I coordinate with offshore destination from marine charting.
Is there a way to force the UI to display the latitude longitude all the time? When a position is selected and information displayed, the upper left sometimes displays lat/long, which I want. But when the point gets closer to shore, like 30-40 miles, it changes to some random selected close geographic city, which is useless. Look at these two pics, the first has lat/long, when I move slightly east it changes to Sarasota (and that’s wrong anyway BTW). And the grid line is too large to rely on that, especially since the longitude on the grid is never visible when a point is selected. Also charts and marine systems use degrees and MINUTES, not degrees and decimal fraction of a degree making conversion necessary for any use with a chart. Isn’t this supposed to marine weather? Why would it use something not natural to marine charts? Just displaying lat/long ALL the time would solve 90% of my gripes though. I am a frequent avid user and love the app, but a few tweaks would be super. Hope you can see these two pics. As an FYI, the reason position is so important is because it relates to water depth for fishing. In the Gulf of Mexico we have to go far offshore from Florida.
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Hi,
Do you use Windy to find your position at sea ?
But if you want to get the coordinates of a given position, move the map to see the crosshairs on the position. Then click on Distance & planning -> Show coords.
But coordinates are still displayed in decimal. I agree a setting to get the format commonly used at sea (e.g N 27°34,05’ W 84°10,24’) would be useful.
