project on a garmin

[+wissels]

Hi,

 

Last weekend we did a cache that required us to project a waypoint.

the projection was 683,3m away.

But when I tried to enter that distance on my garmin etrex H I could only set 0,6 or 0,7km

 

Is there a way to change the km setting to m?

 

Cheers,

wissels

[Dominik1507]

Hi,

 

Last weekend we did a cache that required us to project a waypoint.

the projection was 683,3m away.

But when I tried to enter that distance on my garmin etrex H I could only set 0,6 or 0,7km

 

Is there a way to change the km setting to m?

 

Cheers,

wissels

 

Hi,

my experience is from using the Etrex Venture cx and the 60 cx, but I suppose it should work the same way with the Etrex H series: with the "rocker", you can move the cursor to the field with the units (e.g. "km"). By pressing "Enter", you open up a dropdown-menue where you can choose from a number of different units, including meters. Then just enter "600" for 0.6km. Now, what is really missing is a way to project in smaller direction increments than 1 deg...

Hope that helps,

Dominik

[Dominik1507]

Hi,

 

Last weekend we did a cache that required us to project a waypoint.

the projection was 683,3m away.

But when I tried to enter that distance on my garmin etrex H I could only set 0,6 or 0,7km

 

Is there a way to change the km setting to m?

 

Cheers,

wissels

 

Hi,

my experience is from using the Etrex Venture cx and the 60 cx, but I suppose it should work the same way with the Etrex H series: with the "rocker", you can move the cursor to the field with the units (e.g. "km"). By pressing "Enter", you open up a dropdown-menue where you can choose from a number of different units, including meters. Then just enter "600" for 0.6km. Now, what is really missing is a way to project in smaller direction increments than 1 deg...

Hope that helps,

Dominik

[+wissels]

hmm I tried to select the km as that seemed like the obvious way to do it, but it jumps right over it to the "OK" button on the bottom of the page...

Could this be a limitation of the etrex H over the more expensive models?

 

If that's true, have I found a reason to upgrade to a legend HCx? ;-)

[+wissels]

OK, I also found this post somewhere

link

 

So it looks like the budget GPSR's don't provide enough resolution to do good/usefull projections

Edited August 12, 2008 by wissels

[+Sputnik 57]

More expensive Garmin units allow you to change the field, as Dominink1507 indicates. For units without this functionality, you can always "reverse project." To do that, tell the unit to GOTO the point that you are projecting from. Then start walking 180° from the direction that you were told to project the waypoint (i.e., if the direction is 180 or less, add 180. If it is more than 180, subtract 180). Keep walking until the unit shows that you are 683,3 meters away at a bearing of the computed direction. You should be standing on the spot!

[+wissels]

That's a nice work around...

I completely forgot you can display the bearing to a waypoint.

I'll have to remember that for the next projection.

 

Thanks all.

[+wissels]

Just a note for future reference,

in cachemate you can project from a waypoint and it gives you a new waypoinnt.

It even lets you enter several decimals for the bearing.

[+Sputnik 57]

Ooh. Forgot about that. FizzyMagic also has a free program that will do this: FizzyCalc.

[+Sputnik 57]

Edit: Double post

Edited August 14, 2008 by Sputnik 57