Thread: GPSmap76CSx >> Bearing and Distance to a Waypoint

I finally acquired the property and moved in.
Locating the corner stakes was not my first priority.
And, I had to pick up a metal detector to locate the rebar stakes with.

I finally got around to starting the search a few days ago.
I found the 2 front corner stakes very quickly.
Then, I averaged their locations until the GPS judged them to be within 4'.
That took about an hour for each front corner.

When projecting the Waypoints for the rear corners, I ran into a problem.
I could find no way to change the distance from the front corner to the rear corner from miles to feet.
The length of the side of the lot is 435.6', equal to 0.0825 mi.
The distance in miles to be entered was accurate only to 1/100 of a mile [0000.00 mi].
This introduced an error of 13' in addition to the inherent GPS error.

So, is there any way to set the distance in feet when projecting a new waypoint?

Not that it really matters.
After 2 days of brush cutter and chainsaw work,
I topped a small hump of a'a lava and could see the red ribbon on the stake marking the NW corner about 30' away.
I'll cut my way through to it tomorrow, locate the rebar, then start for the SW corner.

While a GPS is not an accurate enough instrument to do a survey with,
I'll have to admit that it is accurate enough to help locate existing survey markers.