Due to my (massively lazy) idea for this coming weekends Ford Fiesta I've not had anything to do or plan but now that things are looming closer I've realised that I don't know how to plot waypoints (in base camp or via any other methods) given only the grid references that Stu supplied.

Any advice?

I found this worked ok - http://gridreferencefinder.com/batchCon ... onvert.php

Greetz

S.

Scattamah wrote:I found this worked ok - http://gridreferencefinder.com/batchCon ... onvert.php

I just used this then clicked the "Export points to google earth (KML) file" button. Then i converted the KML to a GPX file with this http://kml2gpx.com/ so now i can just put them onto my GPS like i would a route normally

http://www.satmap-xpedition.com/Home/About allows you to search for locations by grid reference, you can then add a 'Point of Interest' and export all POI's as a GPX.

The problem is that I plan to manually add each waypoint to my Garmin 'Forerunner 310XT' (which annoyingly has no upload capabilities).

This means that I need to convert the grid references to whatever format a waypoint exports as and then input it for each waypoint (replacing waypoints I create automatically on the device).

It's a long-winded and roundabout way of doing things but I don't know of another that'll work for random (route-less) waypoints to be added for that device.

Annoying!

Gairy the gridreference finder link above does all this does all this?

Unless I am really misunderstanding something you need to edit existing waypoints because you have no way of uploading or creating ones?

Yes, that's exactly it.

I'll have to have another go at that site as I couldn't make sense of it before.

Cheers, Gairy.

Here are the lat and long for each waypoint incase it helps. You should be able to manually enter waypoints using this.

Grid Latitude Longitude
SH 898028 52.611760 -3.628953

SH 830012 52.595959 -3.728766

SN 838975 52.562884 -3.715662

SH 923077     52.656294 -3.593646

SN 794959 52.547549 -3.779957

SN 817930 52.521995 -3.745022

SN 784892 52.487123 -3.792244

SN 757917 52.508978 -3.832920

SN 737895 52.488750 -3.861536

SN 727869 52.465156 -3.875261

SN 742838 52.437650 -3.852025

SN 843773   52.381473 -3.701272

SN 897826 52.430217   -3.623720

SN 914845      52.447632 -3.599345

SN 894885   52.483176    -3.630088

SN 904952 52.543586 -3.617579

SO 013989 52.578925 -3.458011

SH 993059 52.641465 -3.489650

52.656294 -3.593646

SH 835069      52.647285 -3.723399

SN 904953 52.544485 -3.617612

Thanks - much help, cheers!

All I need to do now is figure exactly I manually alter the existing waypoints on the device (bloody user-un-friendly Garmin devices!!!).

I couldn't get the bloody thing to work so have scrapped my idea and am doing something more conventional.

Thanks all for the attempts at helping but my technological incompetence knows no bounds.