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.

Egika

@CarlW afaik you cannot put in exact coordinates directly, but you can easily move the map around on the watch screen until you reach your desired point. then bring up the navigation menu und choose “Save as POI”. Voila, there you have your POI to add as a navigation target on the watch.

CarlW

@Egika

Thanks!
That was exactly the sort of answer I was looking for, straight to the point and pragmatic! Thanks Egika

BR
Carl

sky-runner

@Egika But that isn’t the same as entering by coordinates. There are situations when coordinates are known but it is unknown where it is on the map. Think about something like looking for obscure hot springs or a source of water, or for example a geocache.

Egika

@sky-runner said in Entering a POI directly on the watch using coordinates:

@Egika But that isn’t the same as entering by coordinates. There are situations when coordinates are known but it is unknown where it is on the map. Think about something like looking for obscure hot springs or a source of water, or for example a geocache.

Yes. That’s exactly what I wrote.
No coords input on watch, but a possible way to define a target point on the watch.

If I am looking for a hot spring position, where I know ccords, currently the only way is to enter the coords in the app.

CarlW

@Egika
Lets hope for an update to fix this issue…in my humble opinion, this should be on the top of sunnto’s To-Do list…no serious navigation watch should lack this very basic application.

raphaelh

Hi @CarlW @egika
I am glad you bring this up and I am not the only one thinking this is a very basic but essential feature of a GPS watch. I created a feedback to the Suunto team requesting the capability to create a POI with a custom coordinate on the watch or be able to edit POIs. Later would be even better as one like is looking for a coordinate within a couples of km so editing a new POI with current location will save some tiping. If you have not done this I would ask you to do the same. The more people ask for it the more likely it will become a feature (maybe). I really wonder whats the opinion of the Suunto team here.

Cheers

CarlW

@raphaelh
Will do, and thanks!
BR
Carl