purring alien Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 I have a question I can't find an answer for on my own, I'm hoping someone here can help me. I read so many posts where finders speak of being so many feet from a cache, but my GPS doesn't measure by feet. It's a Magellan 315 and it shows mileage I think. The closest it has put me was 0.01, and I didn't find the catch. I have no idea how far that is from the catch. Are your GPS's actually measuring feet? Or are they measuring like mine and you are figuring it out in your head? Because when I signed up for this sport nobody said there would be math. :-) Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 Most newer units go down to the foot. At .01 mile you're still a little over 500 feet from the cache. Many people find caches using units like yours, but it's a lot more difficult. "Au pays des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" Quote Link to comment
purring alien Posted June 18, 2003 Author Share Posted June 18, 2003 BrianSnat, 500 feet???!!!! No wonder I couldn't find it! I'm stunned. Thanks for answering, I appreciate it. Quote Link to comment
+Mopar Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 Update the firmware in that 315 and it will go down to feet. Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. Quote Link to comment
+wolf452 Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 Let's try that again, shall we. Even after an evening drinking, .01 miles = 52.8 feet!!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote: Let's try that again, shall we. Even after an evening drinking, .01 miles = 52.8 feet!!!!!! Oops, I read it wrong. I was thinking .10 feet because that's as far as my unit goes before it starts counting feet. "Au pays des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" Quote Link to comment
+team travel pig Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 metres and kilometres... so much easier math... will this country EVER go metric? ___________________________________ who's got the pig? Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by team travel pig:metres and kilometres... so much easier math... will this country EVER go metric? ___________________________________ who's got the pig? Only the drug dealers really understand metric. "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by team travel pig:metres and kilometres... so much easier math... will this country EVER go metric? ___________________________________ who's got the pig? We did go metric in my job. Everyone whined so much that we went back. Then it became a job just to keep track of which job was supposed to be metric and which was english. ===================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
dsandbro Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Renegade Knight: quote:Originally posted by team travel pig:metres and kilometres... so much easier math... will this country EVER go metric? ___________________________________ who's got the pig? We did go metric in my job. Everyone whined so much that we went back. Then it became a job just to keep track of which job was supposed to be metric and which was english. Let's use a REAL system of measurement Furlongs and cubits. =========================================================== "The time has come" the Walrus said "to speak of many things; of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and Kings". Quote Link to comment
+Markwell Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat:Oops, I read it wrong. I was thinking .10 feet because that's as far as my unit goes before it starts counting feet. Just to point it out (for fun ) Brian still can't type right. Should have read: I was thinking .10 miles because that's as far as my unit goes before it starts counting feet. Markwell Chicago Geocaching Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote: I was thinking .10 miles because that's as far as my unit goes before it starts counting feet. Yeah, I guess .10 feet would be pretty darn accurate! "Au pays des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" Quote Link to comment
+flask Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 feet, miles, kilometers... what i REALLY want to add is that it's pronounced "cash" as opposed to "catch" or even "cashay", which i have heard more often than i like. i'm assuiming that you are new and will benefit from this information. welcome aboard. it doesn't matter if you get to camp at one or at six. dinner is still at six. Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Dave54:Let's use a REAL system of measurement Furlongs and cubits. Way too big. We measure in Angstroms where I work. (BTW, I make logic and memory chips at Intel) Took sun from sky, left world in eternal darkness Quote Link to comment
+DenaliNW Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 mopar's comment will work. I have a 315 that originally only displayed .01 mile like yours. Just go to the Magellan webpage, and download the latest software patch for the 315 - version 3.15 I believe. Upload that file into your GPS per the instructions (hopefully you have a cable to sync your gps with your computer), and it should display in feet. You can tell what software version your 315 is running, on the screen that flashes briefly after you turn it on and hit enter. Quote Link to comment
+geopug Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 quote:Originally posted by flask:feet, miles, kilometers... what i REALLY want to add is that it's pronounced "cash" as opposed to "catch" or even "cashay", which i have heard more often than i like. The week before we started geocaching my daughter had cache (cashay) as a vocabulary word in school so tells me I'm wrong when I say cash. Don't think I would ever have tried this sport if they pronounced it geocachaying Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted June 21, 2003 Share Posted June 21, 2003 From Merriam-Webster: cache Pronunciation: kash Function: noun Etymology: French, from cacher to press, hide, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin coacticare to press together. Date: 1797 1 a : a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements b : a secure place of storage.....blah, blah, blah I think the word that is pronounced cachay is cachet, which has an entirely different meaning. "Au pays des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" Quote Link to comment
+geopug Posted June 21, 2003 Share Posted June 21, 2003 Hey thanks, I guess I should have looked at her vocab sheet to see if we were talking about the same thing. duh.. As a parent it's nice to get a chance to be right once in a while Quote Link to comment
Couch_Potato Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Team GPSaxophone: Way too big. We measure in Angstroms where I work. (BTW, I make logic and memory chips at Intel) Wow, and I though I had it tough trying to position things on the sub-micrometer level. Down there at the angstrom level you're dealing with individual molecules. I didn't realize that you built circuits one molecule ar a time. For those that are unfamiliar with the terms, a micrometer is one millionth of a meter and an angstrom is one 10 billionth of a meter. I'm not lost! I just don't know where I am. Quote Link to comment
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