Kent Van Hoesen wrote: > > I am planning to spend two weeks in Quetico Provincial Park this May. I > want to use my Garmin GPS12 but have not been able to find a source for > longitude/latitude way points. ... Where can I find > maps of this area that show longitude and latitude? ... You can enter waypoints into a Garmin 12 without knowing latitude and longitude. The Canadian topos that I use on my paddling trips in northern Canada all have UTM grids. I suspect that the same is true for Canadian topos in the Quetico area. If you are entering waypoints manually, it is actually easier to do so using the UTM format, since the grid is symmetric, and of constant size. (Depending on the map scale, the grid will be shown in either 10-kilometer or 1-kilometer squares.) This makes it very easy to identify the UTM coordinates for any point on the map. The UTM coordinates can then be entered into the Garmin 12 (simply set the position format to UTM in the navigation setup page). An even easier approach is to mark the waypoints on your map, scan the maps into your computer using a flatbed scanner, and then use software such as Ozi Explorer or Fugawi (both of which work very well) to calibrate the map and enter the waypoints into your Garmin (by double-clicking on the marked waypoints, and typing in a name). Dan Hagen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 11 1999 - 05:43:21 PST
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