On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 02:33 PM, Peter Rathmann wrote: > > This is also easily done with a deck compass and a regular GPS. Just > orient your GPS so mag. north on its map corresponds to north on the > compass and you can quickly identify landmarks shown on the GPS map > with > the real-life counterparts. > An electronic compass in the GPS can make the operations a bit faster, > but I don't think it actually adds any capabilities beyond a GPS and > separate deck compass. > I never said is was hard without the electronic compass. You can do just about every thing you want of a GPS with a compass and a chart. But, the primary reason for having a GPS is because it just does useful things quicker. The electronic compass is another step in the quick and easy direction. It is not a big deal one way or the other, but if you are already interested in hi-tek gadgets, the electronic compass is another one that makes small tasks just a little bit easier. If you are intent on doing things with traditional methods, you probably aren't too excited by the whole GPS thing anyway. I would like to see a GPS function for triangulating a waypoint. Point and press one heading, then move to another location and point-and-press for the next. This would be an easy software function for the GPS, it would be nice to see someone add it. Nick *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Dec 06 2002 - 15:16:33 PST
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