Re: [Paddlewise] Best GPS???

From: Joe Pylka <pylka_at_castle.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:55:48 -0500
>All the information re GPS has been helpful, thanks everyone.  Another
question
>though....how close to your target do they really put you??
>Cheryl
>
        Close enough for you to throw a rock at the true location.
Supposedly plus/minus 100 meters nominally, but I usually find an error no
worse than +/- 100 ft.   FWIW, on a 1:24000 topo map this error maps out
smaller than a pencil line.


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