On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Doug Lloyd <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca> wrote: > > I was thinking that for offshore, that's a lot of open space to correlate > on a Google map. Not sure how big an issue that is or isn't. > > Oh... I hadn't thought about that bit. Most sailing yachts make about 100 nm every 24 hours which is probably just far enough apart to discern on a Google map. We used amateur radio extensively on our journeys and got phone patches in to our family which worked well to dispell any anxiety they might have had over our taking their grandchildren off on a sea-going yacht. As far as I know, no one actually plotted our positions or even asked us where we were in lat/lon coordinates... but in the 70s and 80s the idea of lat/lon was still pretty arcane. Now, with everyone having a GPS either on their person, on their bike or in their car, it's a lot more common. So maybe no one would care anyway. Craig *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Jul 22 2008 - 13:20:09 PDT
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