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determining the distance
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| I have a Garmin eTrex, and I want to find out the distance from one point to
another -- where the distance is probably only about 1000 feet. What are the
specific steps to find this out? I seem to be in miles, how do I make it
feet?
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| bjorri 2005-05-19, 12:22 pm |
| JB wrote:
> I have a Garmin eTrex, and I want to find out the distance from one point to
> another -- where the distance is probably only about 1000 feet. What are the
> specific steps to find this out? I seem to be in miles, how do I make it
> feet?
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Make a waypoint at the first spot, walk to the second and read the
distance. There are 1509 feet in a mile so 1000 feet wil be about 0,66 mile
bjorri.
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| In article < 4283babb$0$813$3a628
fcd@textreader.nntp.hccnet.nl>,
bjorri <bjorri@hotmail.kom> wrote:
> Make a waypoint at the first spot, walk to the second and read the
> distance. There are 1509 feet in a mile so 1000 feet wil be about 0,66 mile
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> bjorri.
If your Miles have 1509 feet in them, then you got mighty BIG FEET!
There are actually 5280 US Feet in a Statute US Mile, according to NIST.
Me who has exactly two US Standard Feet..........
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| Yeah, I figured out that I could just read the odometer as I walked, which
said .10 mile when I got to the other side of my yard, and so that's 550
feet. Handy.
Does anyone know how I can use the device to reach a destination base don an
address? Will it just point a compass? Meaning, if I set a waypoint to an
address 2 hours away, when I get close will it just point me in the right
direction?
"Me" <Me@shadow.orgs> wrote in message
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> In article < 4283babb$0$813$3a628
fcd@textreader.nntp.hccnet.nl>,
> bjorri <bjorri@hotmail.kom> wrote:
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> If your Miles have 1509 feet in them, then you got mighty BIG FEET!
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> There are actually 5280 US Feet in a Statute US Mile, according to NIST.
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> Me who has exactly two US Standard Feet..........
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| Steve Calvin 2005-05-19, 12:22 pm |
| JB wrote:
> I have a Garmin eTrex, and I want to find out the distance from one point to
> another -- where the distance is probably only about 1000 feet. What are the
> specific steps to find this out? I seem to be in miles, how do I make it
> feet?
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I don't have your model, I have the 76CS but I switch it from miles to
meters when in the woods. I know what 400 meters is better than .327 miles.
--
Steve
Ever notice that putting the and IRS together makes "theirs"?
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| bjorri 2005-05-19, 12:22 pm |
| Me wrote:
> In article < 4283babb$0$813$3a628
fcd@textreader.nntp.hccnet.nl>,
> bjorri <bjorri@hotmail.kom> wrote:
> There are 1509 feet in a mile so 1000 feet wil be about 0,66 mile
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> There are actually 5280 US Feet in a Statute US Mile, according to NIST.
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> Me who has exactly two US Standard Feet..........
Mea culpa, its only what I found on the internet.
bjorri, happy to use the metric system.
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