> The electronic compass can give some features that are better than just > using your deck compass. With mine I can point the GPS at a > destination, press a button, give an approximate distance to the > destination and end up with a way point for the destination. It is > quite slick. I can do the same thing with my electronic compass free GPS. It's called projecting a waypoint. All I have to do is enter the bearing (read it from the deck or hiking compass) and estimated distance and there is a new waypoint. Can do the same thing from an existing waypoint. Take the bearing from the map, enter the distance and there is the new waypoint. People on the GPS groups discuss the usefulness of the built in electronic compasses since the first came out. There are problems with those things (calibration, levelling of the GPS etc.) one should be aware of -not only that the batteries drain faster. Ulli *************************************************************************** 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 Dec 05 2002 - 12:13:49 PST
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