Entering a POI directly on the watch using coordinates

CarlW

Hello

Just moved from Garmin to Suunto and trying to figure out the Vertical 2 when navigating beyond and out of reach of any kind of phone/internet connection…ie, I do not want / I can not, use my
iphone/phone.

User Scenario question:
Seeing, in the dead of winter, a storm brewing and closing in fast, creating, on the fly, a new POI, being a possible place for sheltering, using only coordinates taken from the paper map held in front of me, in this case not Lat, Long since these are not optimal using a 2-d map, but for example MGRS or similar coordinates…
Is this possible on the suunto Vertical 2?
If not, what are possible workarounds that people on this forum have found?

Many thanks for reading my question and even more thanks for any answers/input
Carl

Wenzudeg

@CarlW I believe that maps on SV2 are not routeable so you cannot choose a place (POI, coordinates, point on map…) and a route is built up. A workaround would be to have an app on the phone with routeable offline maps, build a route on the app and export it to the Suunto app for eventual transfer to watch via BT.

I stand to be corrected by other more knowledgeable members of this forum who are more than willing to help with any queries.

CarlW

@Wenzudeg

Thanks for your answer.
No routing is necessary, only a straight line, point-to-point (your current location, to your newly plotted end destination), and a view of the compass, pointing at your end destination. Just like doing dead reckoning with map and compass.
This has to be the most simple, straight forward application of as gps device! Even my first garmim, several centuries ago, before smartphones and digital mapping, did this

sky-runner

While I don’t have an answer for the original question here is what was possible on an ancient Garmin Forerunner 610 15 years ago:

Start creating a POI for the current location
Modify the current location using the touch screen - considering the POI is not that far away, only a few digits would need to be modified. And yes, the watch had the touch screen and I could spin every digit up/down with touch
Save the POI with modified coordinates and start navigating to it. The navigation was non-routable as the watch didn’t have a map, but it pointed me in the direction of the POI and displayed the remaining distance. I think Suunto POI navigation works the same way.

smutnak

@CarlW If you are only interested in a straight line, you could use azimuth navigation. The compass will still show the direction to the azimuth determined from the paper map.