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Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Mon 27 Jun 2011 7:13 pm
by mayo.mick
Hi steve, first time posting so i hope i'm in the right place.
I recently bought a weather station from maplan n96fy, from what i've read in here i think its a WH 1080/81?
The problem i have is when i try to set the lat/long for my location it keeps reverting to 54.34.32 N 9.35.30 E which is somewhere in mexico
Any help would save the remaining hair that i have left

Re: Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Mon 27 Jun 2011 7:34 pm
by steve
mayo.mick wrote:I recently bought a weather station from maplan n96fy, from what i've read in here i think its a WH 1080/81?
Yes, that's right.
The problem i have is when i try to set the lat/long for my location it keeps reverting to 54.34.32 N 9.35.30 E which is somewhere in mexico
54° 34' 32" N, 9° 35' 30" E is in Germany; Mexico is West of Greenwich.
But anyway; you haven't said what your co-ordinates actually are. Taking Castlebar, which according to Wikipedia is at 53° 51′ 38″ N, 9° 17′ 55″ W, so you put it into Cumulus like this:
Station settings_2011-06-27_20-37-02.png
Re: Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Mon 27 Jun 2011 7:54 pm
by mayo.mick
Cooridanates are lat: 53.94326782N long: -8.95304775W
What i enter is 53 94 32 N -8 95 30W
Every time i enter this it reverts back to 54 34 32N 6 24 30 E
Thanks,
mick.
Re: Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Mon 27 Jun 2011 8:01 pm
by steve
You're trying to put decimal degrees into a form that's asking for degrees/minutes/seconds.
53.94326782 degrees is 53° 56′ 36″ N
-8.95304775 degrees is 8° 57′ 11″ W
Station settings_2011-06-27_21-04-00.png
Re: Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Mon 27 Jun 2011 8:10 pm
by mayo.mick
Thanks steve, got it sorted.
Now just waiting for it to go live on wunderground, registered it yesterday, station ID IMAYOSW12.
Thanks,
mick.
Re: Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Fri 23 Mar 2012 2:22 am
by haveachat_tas
Hi there, I am a new user and this was the best thread I could find.
I am in Australia and trying to set my location and Cumulas will not allow me to add the correct location?
Here is my correct location
-43.026518
147.259101
-43-1-35.4648
147-15-32.763
Here is my current setting in the application and I am unable to insert the minus
Location.png
Thank you for any assistance that can be provided - maybe I am just missing something?
Re: Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Fri 23 Mar 2012 7:19 am
by steve
haveachat_tas wrote:Here is my current setting in the application and I am unable to insert the minus
You can't use a minus sign, you have to give your 'hemisphere' - as discussed earlier in this thread.
-43.026518 is 43 1 35 S
147.259101 is 147 15 33 E
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic ... conversion
Re: Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Fri 23 Mar 2012 7:45 am
by haveachat_tas
Thank you much appreciated
I think it may have been a case of reading too much too fast...
Thanks again!
http://www.margatefirebrigade.com/Marga ... e/weather/
Re: Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Sun 24 Feb 2013 12:27 pm
by sunnyboy
Hi guys this is way over my head has a newbie user with the maplin station but I am having same problem its telling me i'm in Germany LOL. Well i am in west sussex uk and my latitude is 50.8752163 and longitude is -0.7864893 the closest i,ve been is Kent just cant get me head around the working outs...thanks for help guys and it working a dream (i think)
Re: Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Sun 24 Feb 2013 1:42 pm
by steve
sunnyboy wrote:my latitude is 50.8752163 and longitude is -0.7864893
That's 50deg 52min 31sec North, 0deg 47min 11sec West.
2013-02-24 13_39_47-Station settings.png
Re: Setting lat/long in cumulus
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013 7:21 pm
by sunnyboy
Can I just say a big thankyou to steve for your very promt and quick help on setting the lat/long for me, just great to know theres help round the corner 