in this video we'll take a look at waypoints on your garmin etrex 22x or
32x we're just going to focus on stand-alone waypoints on the device we
won't cover transferring waypoints from a computer onto the device but to mark a
waypoint and a waypoint is just a position it could be your current
position could be another position and the Waypoint contains coordinates dates
time elevation and maybe some notes so the easiest way to create a waypoint is
to simply go down and a select mark Waypoint and that will create the
Waypoint that way you can see here that we have our name up here that we can
edit we can change the marker type if we wanted to let's mark it green for
example we can enter some notes it's easier once you transfer waypoints to
your computer to write notes afterwards but you can have the option here and you
also have our GPS coordinates elevation so we can adjust these settings we'll be
creating the Waypoint we can also hit the map page to see
exactly where this Waypoint is so if you're creating a waypoint you're
editing the coordinates here and you want to see if it's at the right spot
you can verify that with the map but once we're done creating the Waypoint we
can select done and the waypoints created the Oh doing is that pressing
and holding the joystick for a second or two they'll jump you to the create
Waypoint page notice here that the name will auto increment so it starts at 0 0
1 and this would be our third Waypoint now we can also project a waypoint
right so there's a waypoint so we can either take our current position or
Waypoint and we can project a new point based on distance and bearing so we can
couple ways can get through this we can actually access Waypoint manager here
and if we wanted to project a Waypoint from one of these locations and project
it at a certain distance or band we can do that so we would do this maybe when
you're walking on the trail and you reach a point and you may get directions
to proceed at 180 degrees 400 meters and then you'll
find the road so if you're doing like bushwhacking that kind of stuff so you
can either choose one of your waypoints to access it but we would can do here's
we can we can do this from our current location for example and simply press on
the Menu key you can access all of our Waypoint functions and we can actually
project the Waypoint and then from here we can enter the bearings so I said
we'll proceed 180 like that and the distance will do meters and we want to
go actually 400 meters due south all right so we can save it so this will
create a new Waypoint so let's just go and see the net its take a look at it
sorry here's the new way point that we projected and let's take a look at our
map you can see that from our original location or somewhere up here this is
400 meters south which was bring us there so now we can actually navigate to
it if we really wanted to the other thing with navigating to waypoints we
can also get to our Waypoint manager and we can choose any one of these points
and do navigation that way so we can just at least select our Waypoint
and select go and what you can also do here is you can get into where to when
you get into where to if you have a navigation in progress you can actually
stop the navigation and if you wanted to use the where to to navigate to a
waypoint you can choose the Waypoint category and
that will give you the same screen as your Waypoint manager you can also
search for a waypoint by name this is very useful if you have many waypoints
and you know the name that you gave it let's say you have a naming schema and
you want to search by that instead it's very easy all you have to
do is get into the weight where to let's go down to waypoints for example and you
have a very large list here what you can do is press the menu button and you can
choose a spell search for example and then from here we can filter the list so
what we're going to do here we're going to do zero zero two for example and you
can see it filtered the list based on the file name and then from here we can
actually choose the Waypoint and navigate to it if we wanted to you can
also edit or delete waypoints so easiest way to access all your waypoints again
you can go down to the Waypoint manager and let's say we want to pick a waypoint
let's use the one that we projected a little while ago we're gonna enter and
let's say we wanted to edit simply go in and just change it right you can go in
change the name change the marker and that's how you can edit the Waypoint
let's say you don't need this Waypoint at all you want to delete it on this
page you just hit menu and you can see here that we can actually select delete
and we'll just delete it confirm yes so this is easy way that you can manage
your waypoints with your Waypoint manager and finally we'll take a look at
Waypoint averaging you can refine a Waypoint to get better accuracy and what
this does is the GPS will take multiple readings of the Waypoint when we create
it so what we can do is we can create a new Waypoint and if we want to make sure
that we had the best reception as possible the best accuracy will take
multiple readings what we can do here on this page we've just hit menu and we can
average Waypoint or average location and now we're going
to hit on start
and we'll say yes to this show you what it does so what we'll do here and you
can let it sit for 90 seconds two minutes three minutes and we'll do it
we'll take a number of readings and we'll adjust the coordinates based on
the samples so that you get the best accurate weight point as possible so you
can either stop this at any point or you can wait until it reaches 100% in this
case we're happy with this I'm going to hit save now we're done and now that
we've updated let's imagine they had updated the coordinates then we hit done
and we're good and that is basically weight points on your garmin etrex 22x or
32X