Maidenhead Converter Support

Having a problem with Maidenhead Converter? This page should have the solution to your problem. If not, feel free to contact me.

Maps Button on the Tracker

The Maps button on the Tracker will remain disabled until Maidenhead Converter has tracked your location. Tap the Activate Tracking button to begin tracking.

Reporting Current Location

When the app launches, tracking is not automatically turned on. Tap the Activate Tracking button to begin tracking.

Accuracy Issues

Maidenhead Converter does its best to provide the most accurate numbers possible, however there are a few things that may degrade accuracy.

The accuracy of tracked locations is limited by the hardware available in your device and by the ability of your device to acquire location signals. While iPhone 3G can receive GPS signals, other devices must rely on less accurate sources.
Maidenhead coordinates have an accuracy of about three quarters of a mile. Latitude and longitude expressed to the second is accurate within about one hundred feet. More precise locations cannot be expressed by Maidenhead Converter. Converting from latitude and longitude to maidenhead and back again will result in loss of accuracy.

Keypads

Maidenhead Converter has special keypads specifically built for entering latitude, longitude, and maidenhead coordinates. These should be intuitive enough to just use, but this section will explain their unique aspects.

If you brought a keypad up in error, you can tap above or below it to dismiss it without committing its value.

You can tap the Done key at any time. You don't need to enter a full eight characters in the Maidenhead keypad or enter a latitude/longitude coordinate to second accuracy to confirm an entered coordinate.

The latitude/longitude keypads have, on their top row, a toggle between North/South or West/East. Tapping the toggle at any time will change the hemisphere that the coordinate is for. Tap the degree button after entering the degree part of a coordinate, and the minute button after entering the minute part.

The maidenhead keypad restricts the characters that you can enter to only valid characters for a given context. Maidenhead coordinates are composed of a pair of letters, followed by a pair of numbers, followed by another pair of letters, and finally another pair of numbers. Because of this, you will be shown a set of letters for the first two characters, followed by a set of numbers, and so forth.