Preferences/Store Contacts- Error with longitude and latitude settings in Parameters settings

[EricMantia]

So in the Store Contacts settings inside Preferences, in the Parameters settings there's a latitude by default and a longitude by default so that when you put the right coordinates it will point to your location on a Google map.

 

We are in Phoenix, Arizona. I opened up Google Earth and grabbed the coordinates for our location and pasted the relevant data into those two fields....but then when I checked the site, it instead pointed to our location as being somewhere in the Hubei Province of China, lol!

 

What am I doing wrong? I figured that by using Google Earth to give me the correct longitude and latitude, I couldn't go wrong. And being an amateur astronomer, I know that the coordinates it gave me are correct for here. Is there some special format required in the way the coordinates are written in those fields?

 

 

NEVER MIND, problem solved! 

Edited September 17, 2013 by EricMantia (see edit history)

[EricMantia]

So in the Store Contacts settings inside Preferences, in the Parameters settings there's a latitude by default and a longitude by default so that when you put the right coordinates it will point to your location on a Google map.

 

We are in Phoenix, Arizona. I opened up Google Earth and grabbed the coordinates for our location and pasted the relevant data into those two fields....but then when I checked the site, it instead pointed to our location as being somewhere in the Hubei Province of China, lol!

 

What am I doing wrong? I figured that by using Google Earth to give me the correct longitude and latitude, I couldn't go wrong. And being an amateur astronomer, I know that the coordinates it gave me are correct for here. Is there some special format required in the way the coordinates are written in those fields?

 

 

NEVER MIND, problem solved! 

SOLVED

[Steve_J]

Hi Eric,

I'm having a similar problem. Can you let me know how you solved this?

Thanks

SteveJ