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No, I am not talking about the cultural divide between Europe and Asia, but rather the ever annoying swap between the 'E' = east longitude selection on a waymark record, and the default setting of 'W' = west. I am certain that there has never been a time during my time on waymark.com that this annoying bug has not been in existence. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Now it is the more times.

Every time I make a 'E' waymark the long swaps back to 'W', every time. When I edit a waymark it swaps back. Maybe even when I think about editing a waymark it swaps back to the default.

All this adds up to time, time when I could be making more waymarks, time where I could be thinking about making more waymarks, time when I could be not making more waymarks.

What is needed is some computer glue, something to stick down the E or the W to what it needs to be, not what it thinks it needs to be.

Now, I am never one to complain, but really, in the 21st century with computers and aircars, and stuff, can this not be fixed? Simple easy thing to do. imo.

I know it's not exactly the same situation, but I've been frustrated at the W not sticking when I logged a photo goal from another country.
I logged the coords correctly (W) but they were changed to E. I noticed, edited the log, and they again were changed to E. I gave up at that point.

Ianatlarge:

What is needed is some computer glue, something to stick down the E or the W to what it needs to be, not what it thinks it needs to be.

I'll fax some over to you.

I have reported the bug to Groundspeak.   You might try leaving it at W but enter a "-" sign in front of the degrees and see if it sticks

I live on one side of the Greenwich Meridian and work on the other so I am logging WMs in both hemispheres. I thought it was "just me" having the east reverting to west but obviously not so! I did work out that, when I enter the east longitude minutes, if I do not include a leading zero, eg entering 00.345 as 0.345 the longitude stays as east.

It does need fixing though!

BruceS — thanks for that tip. Will give it a try.

Master Mariner — living in two hemispheres, somehow I feel envious.

cld — there seems to be a growing sense of irrelevant humour in these fora. Lets just try to stick to the fax.

Just venting here...but I've been dealing with this problem on almost every submission since I have been posting Paris WMS...and it is really frustrating. I tried Mariner's suggestion and that isn't working for me.

metro2@aol.com:

Just venting here...but I've been dealing with this problem on almost every submission since I have been posting Paris WMS...and it is really frustrating. I tried Mariner's suggestion and that isn't working for me.

I have the same problem, but with switching between Deg Min and Deg.Decimal. Quite often I enter deg.dec it reverts, but oddly only about 20% of the time.

BruceS:

I have reported the bug to Groundspeak.   You might try leaving it at W but enter a "-" sign in front of the degrees and see if it sticks

I just tried this trick. It kind of works, but the result is even worse. When I enter e.g. W -7 35.2 then the minutes stay positive, so the result is E 6 24.8. Not really a workaround, sorry.