UTM to Google Earth not matching up?

captchet

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Anyone have any experience with taking UTM co-ords from a map and plugging them into GE? When I do, the pushpin is off by 200-400 meters on my northing only. Easting seems to be correct. I have double checked my co-ords a million times. Going to do some research and try different mapping software such as caltopo to check my grid reading accuracy.

I don't want to be in a situation come Sept. where I GE an area and use those UTM's and end up on the wrong ridge or bench.

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TJ

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Your map is probably using a different datum than google earth.

I think GE uses WGS84.
 
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captchet

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I suspected that this was the issue. After doing some research , WGS84 is the datum that GE uses.

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