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Now Calculate the Exact Area of Any Field with ExpertGPS

ExpertGPS can calculate the exact acreage of any farm field or parcel of land. Instantly. Without any math or figuring on your part. Just click and trace, and let ExpertGPS do the rest.

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Drawing Land Use Maps and Modifying Field Boundaries

Dale writes: “My application requires that I measure the areas of various land use types within a given project area. I had problems when I tried to append a particular shape of one land use to another shape of a … Continue reading

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Geocaching Puzzle Caches: How to find the Orthocenter of a Triangle

Herb asks: “How do I find the orthocenter of the triangle created by three waypoints from my Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx?” The Average Waypoint command in ExpertGPS makes this easy.

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Finding the center of a parcel and averaging GPS waypoints

An ExpertGPS user asks: “How do I find the center of the triangle created by three waypoints from my Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx?” The Average Waypoint command in ExpertGPS makes this easy.

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Calculating the coverage of a central-pivot irrigator

Tom H. needs to draw a circle on a map and determine how many acres are covered by that circle. Dan Foster shows how to use the Waypoint Proximity feature in ExpertGPS to draw circles and how to calculate the … Continue reading

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Calculating the Area of a Farm Field

Dan M. from Indianapolis asks how he can use ExpertGPS to calculate the area of his farm fields. ExpertGPS author Dan Foster shows how to use ExpertGPS to calculate the acreage of an irregularly-shaped farm field using the mapping and … Continue reading

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