How to: Projected Coordinates

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How to: Projected Coordinates

Post by lemmykc » 27 August 11 9:52 am

I have a Garmin Oregon550 that can do projections easily and I have done them many times to find caches. However my question is: how do the owners do them? I mean if I am standing at a point (point A), project to point B, how did the owner know what projection was needed to get to point B?

Do people use software of some sort? I am quite interested to know how to do this as I would like to try it out myself, making a cache using projections.

Thanks! :)
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Re: How to: Projections

Post by Laighside Legends » 27 August 11 10:36 am

They mark the point B in the GPS then go to A and set the GPS to take them to B. Then they look on the "follow the arrow" screen and read the distance and bearing.
Or you can use google earth...
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Re: How to: Projections

Post by Bunya » 27 August 11 11:51 am

There are many online applications available - for example http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/FizzyCalc/

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Re: How to: Projections

Post by Philipp » 27 August 11 12:33 pm

Your Oregon is capable of doing that even if your not at the place - I'll show you next time we meet

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Re: How to: Projections

Post by Toriaz » 27 August 11 3:27 pm

If you have an iphone, there are a few apps that will calculate them for you as well.

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Re: How to: Projections

Post by PesceVerde » 27 August 11 3:51 pm

It may be a bit of a fine point, but I'd call this "projected coordinates" or "projected position" to avoid any confusion with "projection", which refers to the way a map represents the Earth on a flat surface.
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Re: How to: Projected Coordinates

Post by Rigger64 » 27 August 11 4:46 pm

I have done many ways Point A to B.
Marks on mapping software.
Reverse headings.

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Re: How to: Projected Coordinates

Post by lemmykc » 28 August 11 10:15 am

Rigger64 wrote:I have done many ways Point A to B.
Marks on mapping software.
Reverse headings.
Your caches are what made me think of this topic Rigger :D :D :D

So what sort of software do you use? Free software would be better........

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Re: How to: Projected Coordinates

Post by darth trader » 28 August 11 4:22 pm

I have a little app called 'map tools' (iphone) that can work this out when hiding.
When finding, I use the 'project waypoint' function on my garmin.

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