alright in this video we'll show you how you can collect GPS data with your
Garmin instinct so normally with the GPS watches everything center around
activity profiles walk bike paddle that kind of stuff and it will record a track
the track will have a bunch of points but we can actually use the instinct in
a bunch of other different situations where we're collecting field data so
basically we have a couple of scenarios here first we can collect a single point
of information we can also collect a line which is two points and we can also
collect information that will make up an area or a polygon so I'm just going to
show just a couple ways that we can get around this very simply with the Garmin
in sync first thing is go over to the single point obviously there's two ways
we can collect a point we can collect the point where we are right here in our
current location or a point in another location let's say that we're hiking and
we see a trail sign with a set of coordinates on it so we want to mark a
waypoint somewhere else so on the ending is very simple all we have to do is
press and hold the GPS button and then we'll do turn on the GPS screen now you
don't need to have an activity profile running when you're doing this so you
can just be manually creating these waypoints you don't have to be doing a
hike activity to run activity here we have our GPS coordinates we can edit log
it do what we want with it so I'm going to press the save for example from here
we can edit all right so that's one way to do it
the other way is to enter setup ordinance that is not in our current or
mania so we might see it on the map trail post sign that kind of stuff so
what we're going to do here is I'm going to hit the GPS button to get our
activity profiles and down here from our favorites we have a bunch of other
manual features here we're going Diran a vagator
and we're going to go down to coordinates and this will allow us to
manually enter coordinates now the format of coordinates matter so if
you see some coordinates that don't exactly match this type of formatting in
terms of the number of digits and spaces and dots that makes a difference so you
might see coordinates where there's a whole bunch of numbers together which is
probably UTM you might see lat/long which is a whole different format this
is kind of like that long decimal format which you tend to see a little bit more
often these days so from here all we can do is we can go in and then we can go in
and manually edit these coordinates and now we have our location from another
point now which why this is kind of important to be able to manually do is
because we want to be able to navigate in our second scenario from one point to
another point so from our current location to another location or if we're
doing an activity we have all bunch of points here but let's focus on this one
here first so let's stay in our navigate and what we want to do here is we wanna
get to a location so we have our save location so what we would do here is we
can either go down and create a location that we want to navigate to and once
it's created we can refer find it in our list and navigate to it and then you can
just do a simple navigation or you can choose which point you want and all that
the other feature let's say if you want to do more map and compass style
navigation so you're let's say you're paddling and you're reached a certain
point and the directions is you have to go down the specific compass bearing so
that you can find the landing spot or the good fishing space or something like
that so this one we have the cycling go feature that allows you to lock in your
compass bearing to the direction so we have one point here we're gonna walk it
in to a compass bearing and go to another point so for this one here we're
simply just rotate the watch to whatever compass bearing that we need to go to
press the GPS key and then that kind of locks it in now we have our we have kind
of like a point A to B navigation ever screaming and now we can do it alright
so the other option to do point A to point B is when you actually maybe know
the distance so for example you can project the Waypoint this is very
similar to point A to point B as opposed to site and go where you can lock in the
bearing you're not quite sure how far you need to go with project Waypoint
you're setting the bearing and you're setting the distance so that you know
exactly where it is so a project Waypoint here you can see we have our
distance we have our bearing and then we can adjust the the heading right here
and then we can navigate very similar to site and go and finally when we're
recording a polygon or an area when we're doing an activity we can probably
do this ourselves and download our track to our computer and then calculate the
area from our course that way but government has a future call area again
this is manually you can manually create this anytime you want again on the
instinct it's found here area calculation and well you can do here you
can select it and then you can walk around the perimeter or if you're
paddling for example you want to measure a body of water and you'll find stuff
like that you can do it like that need to measure
it and these features shareable will turn off after you've kind of done with
them so essentially that is basically quick ways you can use a GPS to cover
these types of GPS scenarios on the Garmin Instinct