Spent an hour or so last night _at_ http://www.nps.gov/prwi/readutm.htm trying to make sense of this UTM stuff. My BBA charts are 1:94,000 but some of my others are 1:40,000. No UTM grids on any of them. The only grids I have are every 5 lat/lon minutes. Tried to supplement the tutorial with some other reading and checked out Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation by David Burch and Be Expert With Map & Compass by Bjorn Kjellstrom and neither has any reference to UTM. MapTech, my electronic charting software doesn't mention it either. My spelling verifier does like UTM however???? I think whomever that evil person was who mentioned UTM to Bob Denton, also mentioned something about a grid template or something. Am I missing a piece of hardware somewhere or just a few brain cells? The examples end up with coordinates from 4-10 digits in length, depending on desired accuracy. That's some pretty big numbers and sounds like it would take just as long or longer to come up with and enter them into a GPS as lat/lon . (I really haven't entered anything yet). What makes UTM better/easier or whatever than lat/lon or is it just another technothingee? Clyde Sisler http://csisler.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 06:04:37 PDT
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