How to Measure Distance Between Two Waypoints Using UTM and Garmin GPSMAP 62 64 64X

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In this video, I'll quickly show you how to measure the distance between 2 waypoint, points of interest or geocaches using your GPS or by using pad & paper.

The easy way is to use the measure distance function on your GPS (in this example I'm using a garmin gps map 62s). Use the cursor/rocker and select a waypoint. Hit menu and select measure distance from the menu options.

From there, you can move the cursor to your next waypoint. You will see that the screen will now display the distance. You can hit enter to measure a second point. And so on...

Once done, hit menu to stop measuring.

The second way is to use pad & paper. In order to do this, you need to change the position format of your GPS to display the coordinates in UTM format.

Go to the main menu | system | position format. and select UTM from the list.

From here you are ready to measure the distance. Here we simply recall back from our days in math class and try to solve the distance of a right angle triangle. This is because the UTM format contains a Northing & Easting and the system allows us to use this without having to do correction based on the curvature of the earth.

So we substract each Easting & Northing and get the positive value, then go ahead to solve the math.

P1: E 346497 N 5048648
P2: E 347595 N 5051734

E
P2-P1
(347595-346497)= 1098
(1098x1098) = 1205604

N
P2-P1
(5048648-5051734)= 3086
(3086x3086) = 9523396

sqrt(1205604+9523396)= 3275.5m

Answer
3275.5m (from above)
3270m (from google earth ruler tool) #avoidingchores #garmin