Ponder: Many SAR teams use the degrees and decimal minutes. Comparing this to Google maps is not a good comparison so to speak.
Are you saying GOOGLE MAPS is not relavent?
If your communication involves
Transmitting what you see on the screen using voice -
Interpreting voice and typing the location -
Sending emails of the location -
Receiving emails of the location –
Pasting into a mapping program
Then your process has some life threatening holes in it.
Cut and past your location into
http://mapper.acme.comN 43 deg 57.980 min W 116 deg 11.362 min
It doesn't work. Time wasted. Life threatening error.
Cut and past your location into Garmins Mapsource.
It doesn't work. Time wasted. Life threatening error.