Anyone use an app for measuring hole distances? I'm thinking there has to be one where you can drop a pin at different locations and then measure the distance between the two. Thanks for your help!
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Anyone use an app for measuring hole distances? I'm thinking there has to be one where you can drop a pin at different locations and then measure the distance between the two. Thanks for your help!
S.Cann,
fwiw...
Udisc has one of my courses' distances off by 17% on average. 5 of their (Udiscs') values were too high; 13 too low. Closest was off by 2 feet (0.8%); furthest was off by 100 feet (52.1%). IMO Udisc's distances (as posted) are pretty much useless. And yes, I'm one of those people who own, use, and believe a 300' steel tape is second only to a theodilite.
Nice. A class I took in college was heavily focused on pacing. (I don't even really remember what the class was, GIS or mapping of somesort), and yes, pacing can be a very accurate way to measure distance, and is how many early surveys over the years where conducted.
In scouts, during a JLT outing, we did a lot of pacing work. And on my Quest beyond Eagle, we did a LOT of pacing work, as well as mountaineering, orienteering, and map and compass work. That was fun. At one point, they pretty much just dropped us off somewhere in the mountains, and left us to navigate back home. All we had was topo map and compass. No GPS allowed.
I like it when UDisc is wrong.
It's a real confidence booster when us 300' throwers can get into circle one for a putt on a 450' hole.
Thanks for all the replies! I'm trying to measure distances at my backyard course. I have a wheel and I think I'll just use that.
BTW, cell phones triangulate off cell towers and known wifi hot spots. I don't think any of them use satellite GPS.
Early on civilian GPS was limited in accuracy to +|- 10' I think. Not sure if that's still the case.
Go out to a football field, walk off 100 yards counting every other step. Try to be consistent with your normal stride. Once you have your stride length you can be as accurate or more than UDisc. If you practice you can get within a few percent error.