Luckless Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 (edited) Trying to find distances for hidden waypoints and unpublished waypoints. Edited April 22, 2010 by Luckless Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Trying to find distances for hidden waypoints and unpublished waypoints. given two sets of co-ordinates this application will give you the distances between the two points. Quote Link to comment
+slackpacker Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 I've used this one - http://boulter.com/gps/distance/ Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Since the OP asked for a website, here's my favorite. Just put the decimal portion of the minutes in the "minutes" box and leave the "seconds" box blank. Quote Link to comment
+Nathan Wert Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/calculators Quote Link to comment
+cw1710 Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 not a website but I use google earth and the ruler tool included with it Quote Link to comment
+techie Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 Acme Mapper allows you to set multiple markers, and will show the distance and bearing from any marker to any of the others. IMHO, it's a better interface than Google Maps, although it uses the same data.. The author is also a cacher.. http://mapper.acme.com Quote Link to comment
+SSO JOAT Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 If you're at your computer, MapSource will do it without having to get on the internet and rely on some unknown "tool" to be accurate. Your GPSr will do it right there in the field if you have a half-decent model. Quote Link to comment
daveindeal Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 i use these two websites for my initial setting up of a cache. first with give you the decimal loat long , to give you a good start for setting up your cache page: Lat Long finder you can view it as map, satellight, of hybrid and can zoom into streat level with very accurate coordinats. The second once i have visited GZ and got the pinpoint location i use this to find out the distance to any other caches/ closest parking etc. distance between to coords and if you need to do the conversion between decimal and DMS cords i use this page decimal to DMS Quote Link to comment
djhobby Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 I use FizzyCalc. It's not an online tool but some free software you download. It does all sorts of other useful geocaching calculations too. http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/FizzyCalc/ Quote Link to comment
+SSO JOAT Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 If you're just trying to get the tenth-mile separation, the easiest method is to load your GPX of all the area caches into MapSource, select all of them and add a 0.1 mile proximity to every cache. Now load them to your Garmin GPSr and you'll have the tenth-mile circle drawn around every cache so you can quickly tell if you're close to anything. Be sure to keep a private waypoint file of all puzzle finals and MC physical stages and you can load those into your GPSr also. Quote Link to comment
+skraeling Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 I've used this one several times. Lots of options/variations depending on what you are trying go figure out: Javascript Great Circle Caculator. Quote Link to comment
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