Re: [SI] Not Quite Obsolete - Alan's comments


"Alan Browne" <alan.browne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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William Graham wrote:


In my experience, the GPS receivers are great for telling you where you
are, and where you were, but they have a real problem when it comes to
telling you how to get from where you are to where you were.....Only your
visual memory can do that. - And if you are basically a, "city boy" as am
I, one tree looks just like another, and I can get just as lost with a
GPS along as I can without it......

You set a waypoint (by "marking" it or entering its coordinates) and it
gives you the course to it. You can store hundreds of waypoints and
dozens of courses. It may be up to you to figure out where the roads are
or whether to go around or overtop a hill, etc., but it doesn't get much
easier than GPS. This takes some planning before a trip to enter a
waypoint, but it pays off immediately. (Google maps / sat view, make a
link, extract the lat long from the link).

Automobile GPS' give you turn by turn instructions and have hotel,
restaurant, gas station, etc. details in them.

Yes. - I have a cheap Garmin that's about 5 yrs old now....It doesn't have
all those fancy software routines in it. I would be better off just carrying
a bunch of red ribbons along to tie to a tree every 100 yards or so.....Or,
I should spring for a newer model.........


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