Trash Pile

[cajun]

Originally Posted by h20ski

Can someone give me gps coordinates or point it out on satellite map where is trash pile. we are new to the area.
Thanks

In the late 1980's we did a survey of the boundaries of the trash pile for the Port of Iberia.
The coordinated we found are as follows:
N 29° 47' 29.9760 W 91° 52' 20.2476 TP1
N 29° 48' 19.4142 W 91° 51' 59.5938 TP2
N 29° 48' 18.7992 W 91° 50' 58.3506 TP3
N 29° 48' 2.11320 W 91° 50' 46.2444 TP4
N 29° 48' 1.49400 W 91° 51' 28.9722 TP5

Connecting these points closing with a line from TP5 to TP1 defines the area. I hope this helps.

[cajun bill]

Originally Posted by cajun

In the late 1980's we did a survey of the boundaries of the trash pile for the Port of Iberia.
The coordinated we found are as follows:
N 29° 47' 29.9760 W 91° 52' 20.2476 TP1
N 29° 48' 19.4142 W 91° 51' 59.5938 TP2
N 29° 48' 18.7992 W 91° 50' 58.3506 TP3
N 29° 48' 2.11320 W 91° 50' 46.2444 TP4
N 29° 48' 1.49400 W 91° 51' 28.9722 TP5

Connecting these points closing with a line from TP5 to TP1 defines the area. I hope this helps.

Cajun, many thanks, been looking for something definitive like this for awhile.

[ImBrowsin]

How does this set of coordinates for the Trash Pile breakdown for a Humminbird unit... My unit uses (example): N29* 29/976 and W091* 20.247..... Another thing is on the last two sets of coordinates the N reads 2.11320 and 1.49400.... Is this an error??? I have looked the biggest part of a day to find a conversion table on the internet to change it over to the format of my Humminbird... Thanks in advance for the reply...

[cajun bill]

Originally Posted by ImBrowsin

How does this set of coordinates for the Trash Pile breakdown for a Humminbird unit... My unit uses (example): N29* 29/976 and W091* 20.247..... Another thing is on the last two sets of coordinates the N reads 2.11320 and 1.49400.... Is this an error??? I have looked the biggest part of a day to find a conversion table on the internet to change it over to the format of my Humminbird... Thanks in advance for the reply...

I think you might be missing some numbers for the minutes, but the last set of numbers should be the seconds so if you divide the last set of numbers by 60, i.e. 20.247 divided by 60 would give you .337 for the seconds entry. Not sure about the "coordinates the N reads 2.11320 and 1.49400" maybe that could be the decimal version of some coordinates?

[ImBrowsin]

Cajun Bill.... I have looked over the coordinates again and for the fourth and fifth set of coordinates the North Line is not the same setup as the other three... I did enter the coordinates on google earth and got a very good picture of the boundries of teh trash pile but there are the fourth and fifth set of coordinates thar just don't seem to fit... I'm still searching for the breakdown on how to convert those numbers into a coordinate for google earth, humminbird, garmin or lowrance...I do thank you for the information you provided and any additional input would be appreciated...

[wishin i was fishin]

This is what I got from the coordinates. Is this correct?

[ImBrowsin]

This is basicly what I got as well.... The only thing I can't quiet understand is the Lat. coordinates for TP4 and TP5... The last set of numbers with one digit and then a dot with the five or so numbers after that is a little confusing... Of course I'm a long shot from being even an amature survey helper... I was once told the only dumb question is the one that you don't ask... Guess I'm going with it like this as well unless someone breaks down the TP4 & TP5 into a (Example: 37.487) number...

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by ImBrowsin

This is basicly what I got as well.... The only thing I can't quiet understand is the Lat. coordinates for TP4 and TP5... The last set of numbers with one digit and then a dot with the five or so numbers after that is a little confusing... Of course I'm a long shot from being even an amature survey helper... I was once told the only dumb question is the one that you don't ask... Guess I'm going with it like this as well unless someone breaks down the TP4 & TP5 into a (Example: 37.487) number...

The more numbers, the more accurate. For instance 32.105 will get you within say 100 units of the true spot. 32.1053 will get you within say 10 units and 32.10533 will get you within 1 unit. (just an example, the units (meters/feet/inches/centimeters, etc.) will depend on your settings