Guest jon Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 Is this GPS capeable of measuring in feet after getting close to a waypoint like my emap does? Quote Link to comment
Guest Ttepee Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 This has come up a couple of times now and I have not seen a fix given to change it. I've got a 12 too so have been interested in getting an answer too. Good Luck Quote Link to comment
Guest jon Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 If you hear of any change, Please let me know! Thanks for the response!! Quote Link to comment
Guest Ttepee Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 Sure thing Jon... same there Quote Link to comment
Guest Ttepee Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 Sure thing Jon... same there Quote Link to comment
+Team Finn Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 I have a Garmin 12, and sadly enough it is not possible to get it to show distance in feet...howerver by changing to Km instead of miles, you can get it down to .01Km which is easy to convert...10 meters = 39ft. ~Dave Quote Link to comment
+Sea_Dog Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 I have a Garmin 12 also. It's pretty easy to convert miles to feet too. .01 miles is about 53 feet. When I get that close I quit using the Go To function and just try to match coords. Quote Link to comment
+EraSeek Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 When you get down to .01 miles you are usually pretty close to on top of it anyway, but I also start watching my lat/long at that point. .001 mins pretty much equals about 6 ft or so. You could also switch to UTM where the coords are in meters...so 1 meter this way...1 meter that way. Quote Link to comment
+park2 Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 Even though the distance is .00, the Goto compass continues to point towards the actual point so I usually just continue to watch the needle. If I'm not moving fast enough for it to register, I just hold the G12 so S faces the sun (or whatever direction is roughly appropriate for the time of day) and the needle will then point at the target. Quote Link to comment
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