> The lesson is clear: If you are navigating a car on GPS, do NOT look at the > road, however tempting it may be, and NEVER EVER look at traffic signs. > Shouldn't be too hard with a bit of practice. > That explains it!!! I didn't know that so many New Jersey drivers were using GPS! --But you and Jochen have mentioned a few things that beginners using gps forget about. If you've entered a waypoint for, say, a campsite on the other side of an island then be sure to add a few waypoints to get you Around that island!! I do take mine on the river and I've marked in such things as good lunch stops, emergency access, rapids or obstructions, that sort of thing. It's a good resource for on-the-fly trip planning. It unit calculates estimated time of arrival to these (and it's really an estimate) and can tell me how long to sunset. I have also marked pollution sources and reported them..... Tidal factors never occurred to me so far as time and route is concerned. Thanks for bringing that out.. Joe P. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 26 2001 - 07:12:43 PDT
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