eTrex Venture HC

[+cashingrrl]

Anyone else have one who can tell me how to input a location by entering coordinates. I swear I have looked through the manual twice and cannot find it.

[+coggins]

You can press in the clickstick (it's the button on the face) until a Mark Waypoint screen appears, and then edit the co-ords, name and symbol to what you want.

Edited August 29, 2008 by coggins

[+cashingrrl]

You can press in the clickstick (it's the button on the face) until a Mark Waypoint screen appears, and then edit the co-ords, name and symbol to what you want.

 

Thank you. Using your info I somehow realized that the screen I needed was under "Mark" on the main menu.

 

Interesting fact:

On page 7 of the manual it clearly tells you that you can create a waypoint in 3 different ways.

1. Press ENTER while at a location

2. create one on the Map Page.

3. Manually enter coordinates (this is what I wanted to do)

 

They proceed to explain how to do #1 and #2 but not #3.

 

I hate getting used to new electronic toys.

[+coggins]

You can press in the clickstick (it's the button on the face) until a Mark Waypoint screen appears, and then edit the co-ords, name and symbol to what you want.

 

Thank you. Using your info I somehow realized that the screen I needed was under "Mark" on the main menu.

 

Interesting fact:

On page 7 of the manual it clearly tells you that you can create a waypoint in 3 different ways.

1. Press ENTER while at a location

2. create one on the Map Page.

3. Manually enter coordinates (this is what I wanted to do)

 

They proceed to explain how to do #1 and #2 but not #3.

 

I hate getting used to new electronic toys.

Thought I'd start you out with the easiest one button solution.

[+Ratsneve]

You can press in the clickstick (it's the button on the face) until a Mark Waypoint screen appears, and then edit the co-ords, name and symbol to what you want.

 

Thank you. Using your info I somehow realized that the screen I needed was under "Mark" on the main menu.

 

Interesting fact:

On page 7 of the manual it clearly tells you that you can create a waypoint in 3 different ways.

1. Press ENTER while at a location

2. create one on the Map Page.

3. Manually enter coordinates (this is what I wanted to do)

 

They proceed to explain how to do #1 and #2 but not #3.

 

I hate getting used to new electronic toys.

I agree about new electronics being a bear--especially when some features really don't work. On my Colorado I needed to create coordinates for a paperless multi geocache I was doing for the first time. Out of desperation I stumbled on just creating a dummy waypoint and editing its coordinates. I was pleased to see it disappear and reappear at the edited coordinates--I guess half-expecting not to see it move at all. As a bona fide waypoint outside of the paperless geocache I could auto-route to it too. You know, it looks sort of like all three of those methods might be describing the same method from 3 different points of view--one right near where you are at, one off somewhere else, and the third just using different wordage for the either of the other two.

Edited August 30, 2008 by Ratsneve