+Team Lankidden Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 How to calculate distance between Lat/Long Coordinates BEFORE Caches are reviewed and published? Many thanks Neil C Quote Link to comment
+kunarion Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 1 minute ago, Team Lankidden said: How to calculate distance between Lat/Long Coordinates BEFORE Caches are reviewed and published? Many thanks Neil C Set carefully tested waypoints at each point, then you can shoot the distance between each one. Map software such as Google Maps can calculate it without needing to be in the field. But I usually measure the distance on site, just to be sure. Quote Link to comment
+IceColdUK Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 7 minutes ago, Team Lankidden said: How to calculate distance between Lat/Long Coordinates BEFORE Caches are reviewed and published? Many thanks Neil C Plenty of online tools for this sort of calculation. The Geocaching Toolbox is handy resource: https://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/index.php?lang=en&page=distanceBearingMidpoint 1 Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 See also the Boulter coordinate distance utility http://boulter.com/gps/distance/ 1 Quote Link to comment
+frostengel Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 On 10/21/2020 at 6:11 PM, Team Lankidden said: How to calculate distance between Lat/Long Coordinates BEFORE Caches are reviewed and published? Many thanks Neil C Find the UTM coordinates (some tools will help) and use the Pythagorean theorem. :-) [Yes, that works and is not too hard to do.] 1 Quote Link to comment
yrcko Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 I used that too, but you have to make sure that both places are on the same UTM area, although it is very unlikely that you just hit the border between two UTM areas. Quote Link to comment
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