Is there something wrong with surface coordinates?

Anybody successfully completed a tip-off mission, or anything else that relies on using surface coordinates (is there anything else?), recently?

I accumulated 3 tip-offs over the last couple of weeks, while mining, and I thought I'd spend a bit of time completing them last night.
Out of the three, there was nothing at the coordinates of any of them.

One of them, in particular, was a "some people have left their data-points unguarded" tip-off, which usually means it involves visiting a surface outpost.
As I was gliding down to the surface I noticed that I passed a surface outpost but, when I reached the correct surface coordinates, the outpost was about 5° (a couple of hundred km across the surface) away.
At the given coordinates, there was nothing.

The other 2 were more straightforward "go find the crashed ship" tip-offs.
One planet had valleys in the area so it's possible I might have missed it but the other one was just a barren plain and there was nothing at all nearby.
In both cases, the SRV's wave scanner wasn't detecting anything either.


On a related note, I went to visit Miterrand Hollow a few weeks ago (to collect something for a regular mission) and that has surface POIs (crashed ships and Geo sites) which can be located with the DSS.
Scanned the planet with the DSS (to identify all the surface POIs), selected the mission target, glided down to the surface and found that the POI was about 0.5km away from where the crash-site (in that case, a wrecked SRV and a bunch of cannisters) was located.

There were a couple of other surface POIs within a couple of hundred km and, since I was flying my Viper, I thought it'd be fun to visit them too.
Same thing with those; the marked POI's were up to 1km away from the physical item.


Just seems like surface coordinates aren't terribly reliable at the moment.... for me, at least. :unsure:
 
Done some successfully a week or so ago. hmm, maybe I'll go and do the recent ones later - thanks for the idea :)

Edit: Just gone to another - hover at coords. look down and there it it - seems to be working fine
 
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as I have issues finding painite there is no way im cruising to, torno, torno3 planet its at? and message says expect hostiles?as I am a novice at combat and dislike way your dead, before can get my hardpoints up ,waste of time combat,in old elite game you had autopiliot kept the target in view and you could use turrets and view from external view as you fought,thats when combat was fun,if got to close you switch autopilot of,was click click thing needed be smart un autopilot while in combat then switch it back on
 
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