Calculating offsets
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Calculating offsets
I feel rather embarrassed asking this but i started a puzzle cache yesterday and gathered the a,b,c,d's etc from an information board the description of the cache then asked me to calculate the offset using these clues, which i have no idea how to, if someone could point me in the right direction that would be much appreciated, the cache in question is http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 0ebd8ece91
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Re: Calculating offsets
Three ways (or more!)
Traditional - Grab a compass and start pacing! Set the destination on your GPS as the start point, and head off in the projected direction until GPS read the projected distance. Good for short stuff.
Function - A lot of GPS units have a project function which makes this easy... unit dependant.
Calculated - GCC (Geocaching Calculator, and a number of the Geocaching apps on Android and iPhone have tools to caculated projected co-ords, which you can then jut punch into the GPS
Good Luck!
Traditional - Grab a compass and start pacing! Set the destination on your GPS as the start point, and head off in the projected direction until GPS read the projected distance. Good for short stuff.
Function - A lot of GPS units have a project function which makes this easy... unit dependant.
Calculated - GCC (Geocaching Calculator, and a number of the Geocaching apps on Android and iPhone have tools to caculated projected co-ords, which you can then jut punch into the GPS
Good Luck!
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Re: Calculating offsets
Are you sure you linked to the right cache? I can;t see offsets in this cache.
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Re: Calculating offsets
Yeah sure did, in the description it says "use the clues to calculate the offset gz"LouiseAnn wrote:Are you sure you linked to the right cache? I can;t see offsets in this cache.
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Re: Calculating offsets
Thanks Zalgariath will give it a go next time om down that way!Zalgariath wrote:Three ways (or more!)
Traditional - Grab a compass and start pacing! Set the destination on your GPS as the start point, and head off in the projected direction until GPS read the projected distance. Good for short stuff.
Function - A lot of GPS units have a project function which makes this easy... unit dependant.
Calculated - GCC (Geocaching Calculator, and a number of the Geocaching apps on Android and iPhone have tools to caculated projected co-ords, which you can then jut punch into the GPS
Good Luck!
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Re: Calculating offsets
Night shift is a killer... just spotted more than 6 typos in that last message of mine ... bah...
Re: Calculating offsets
Although the description says offset gz, it looks like gz coords are just the posted coords with the decimal parts replaced by the called values.