Thanks Bruce. You almost make it sound easy. Now if I can just find it . . . Pam Tribble 157 ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce S<mailto:bruces1321@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:45 PM Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Math Lesson? - I am a mathematician and yes this one can be figured out before hand. To find where the point is you need to find the distance between the two given points and the bearing between these points. (you can do this using gps and putting both points in and putting in as route leg) From this you can get the direction to the cache by adding or subtracting 60 degrees from bearing and the distance will be the same as the distance between the 2 points. (remember this is an equilateral triangle) Actually there are 2 possible points but one will end up in river. Bruce >From: Bernie <happykraut@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:happykraut@xxxxxxxxxxx>> >Reply-To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Math Lesson? >Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:28:11 -0600 > >- > There is a palm based program called NavCalc that will do that for you. >Bernie > >P ekey wrote: > >>Help! I need a math lesson. I'd like to try to find the Cedar cache >>(GCA700), and from reading the logs, I might get lucky and just stumble >>into it, but I'd rather do the math first. I suppose I could go to >>midpoint between the two coordinates provided and project a waypoint to >>the final location, but there must be a better way to figure out the final >>waypoint on paper. Can anyone point me to a website that could explain how >>to triangulate waypoints? Or simply send directions? >>Thanks, >> Tribble 157 >> . . . not a mathematician >> >> >> > >**************************************************************************** >Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com<http://www.geostl.com/> Mail List Info. >//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching >Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html<//www.freelists.org/help/questions.html> >**************************************************************************** >To unsubscribe from this list: >send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with 'unsubscribe' in the >Subject field > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers! http://shopping.msn.com/softcontent/softcontent.aspx?scmId=1418<http://shopping.msn.com/softcontent/softcontent.aspx?scmId=1418> **************************************************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com<http://www.geostl.com/> Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching<//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching> Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html<//www.freelists.org/help/questions.html> **************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field
