This is the best information and instruction book that we have been able to find anywhere on UTM. If you want to really learn and understand UTM, and all adventure racers should, this is a must have booklet. It even comes with a UTM Grid Overlay tool.
(UTM is the coordinate system used in almost all adventure races to locate where a check point is on the map.)
45 pages of instruction on the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Map Coordinate System and a "pocket sized" UTM Grid Overlay suitable for use with 1:24,000 scale, color 7.5 minute USGS topographic maps.
If you're a beginning GPS user or new to the UTM coordinate system this package is a great place to start learning about both UTM and MGRS coordinates. With lots of illustrations and step by step instructions you'll be converting between map locations and UTM coordinates in no time!
Includes:
• A Quick Start to Using UTM Coordinates
• Why Use UTM Coordinates
• Setting Up Your GPS to Use UTM
• Using Your GPS
• Locating Coordinate Grid Information on USGS Maps
• Tools to Measure Within the Grid
• UTM Practice Map
• Drawing the UTM Grid Lines
• Adding UTM Grid Information
• More Details About the UTM Coordinate System
• MGRS and USNG Coordinates
• North Reference
• UPS
This booklet also covers using a GPS with UTM cordinates.
Included UTM Grid Tool
"Pocket Sized" UTM Grid Overlays for fast and easy UTM plotting. This easy to use grid tool divides a 1 kilometer grid square into 100 meter squares. Align the tool on the map grid and read off the easting and northing values. The 1:24,000 scale tool is sized for a 1km grid spacing. The tools also have a compass rose along their outside edge. This makes plotting or measuring a bearing a snap. The small size of this tool will allow you to keep it handy in your pocket.
Printed on 30 mil plastic stock the tools are about the thickness of a credit card. The ink is coated to protect it from abrasion.
Size 2.75” x 2.75”(7cm X 7cm).
