To provide more information on what my challenges are I’ll provide a little more information.
I am given plotted locations on Google earth. I’m supposed to go to these specific locations and collect Data. If I have Google earth opened and stand on the plotted point, my gps DDM coordinate will convert to pretty much perfectly match the provided DD point on the Google earth map. But my cell phone DD will read a different number than the plotted point. If I walk to the cell phone DD location I might be 15 feet off.
I have just been using my gps coordinates and converting to DD. I feel that if I have have to defend my observations that this method more accurately reflects the company’s mapping. I was just trying to reduce the possibility of input error occurring during the conversion process.
