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how you use your GPS module

I know what it can do, but I just don't have enough reasons to have one. But seeing many thread about it, I just beginning to wonder how people use their GPS in their daily life.

Tell me which one you own and how you like it.

thanks.


u-key

Registered: Dec 2000
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Where ever you go, there you are.

Referencing changes in the xyz coordinates. In order to log the juxtaposition of the experience in time and space. Taking the artifacts of the space-time continuum as evident.

other uses:

1) Celestial Navigation (varifictional)

2) Attempting to convert a grid of UTM XYZ co-ordinates to a grid of XYZ co-ordinates on the relevant ellipsoid. This is to allow the curvature of the Earth to be represented in the XYZ dataset; measuring curvature between grid nodes at varying offsets and the need to be able to measure the true curvature at long offsets.

Can experince be represented as polyhedra?

Last edited by zer0phase on 03-11-2001 at 03:12 PM

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Re: Where ever you go, there you are.

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Can experince be represented as polyhedra?

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I have a Magellan and use it for Hiking and walking. Mainly because its accurate on how many miles we go, elevation, direction, and speed.

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Re: Re: Where ever you go, there you are.

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Yes, but it would have to be a quasi-crystal....

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Registered: Jun 2000
Location: Lewisburg, PA
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Ok, back to reality.....

I use my GPS for both driving (at work) and flying (strictly play).

My original setup was my VDX and Magellan 315, with one of the fancy little cables in between. But I have since ebay-ed my Magellan 315 in favor of the Magellan Companion (although, I'm waiting for Staples or Amazon to get it back in stock).

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I guess...

I guess I got to change my job or just simply get out of town once a while to own and appreciate a GPS. Come to think of it when was the last time I went out of city?
maybe I should get it right now and use that as excuse...

by the way, poll kinda make sense;
there's only one Dr.Jones.


u-key

Registered: May 2000
Location: Fairfax, VA, USA
Posts: 77

Mines not on the list!

I use the Magellan for flying. Works very well once it has a fix.

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Yup.

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THERE!

you mean you as pilot? that`s funky!! wait, sreidy, you said "flying" as well, you guys use it to navigate an airplane?


u-key

Registered: Jun 2000
Location: Lewisburg, PA
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Ukey,

Yup, as in flying airplanes. My VDX and Magellan 315 worked great! The only annoying part was the cable attaching the two devices (besides the fact that it was *two* separate devices). By scrapping the standalone GPS and getting the Magellan Companion, I'll have virtually identical hardware with a much smaller form factor. I can't wait for Staples to get it back in stock.

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if you tell that to my dad, he will say, with a sad face;

"My days are over...."

he is a commercial pilot flying B747. I don't think he has any idea that same little thing which took some pictures of him and my friends at sushi bar the other day could do such thing!!
he was asking me bunch of questions that time, since that was first time for him to see visor. considering him being sort of tech. geek like me, he might get one by himself. then GPS module would be a good father's day gift....


u-key

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 7

I just got my Magellan GPS Companion for backpacking - I'm very excited!

You see I have quite a reputation for taking the wrong fork in the trail (getting forked)......I have logged many a mile going the wrong way, and have endured much taunting & teasing around the campfire! Never again! :-)

My PC topographical map software (Topo! from Nat. Geographic) lets me plot waypoints, which are uploaded to my visor and printed on my map. Then I laminate the map down at Kinko's, so I can write on it & it will be waterproof.

So, by finding my coordinates on my map grid or by triangulation from known waypoints, I can very easily locate my position on a REAL map. I will NEVER part with my real maps & compass when hiking - the GPS is purely a supplement!

Hence I have no need for topo maps on the visor itself - which is good because I know of only one solution for this - Delorme's Solus - which I hear is unreliable on the visor w/magellan companion.

My visor's memory is then free for bookoo waypoint storage, plenty of diary entries, storage of my entire trail guide & wilderness first aid book, and ample notes on my photography.

If all goes well in testing, I intend to use this system on my big hike this summer - I'm going to attempt the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) all the way through Oregon & maybe Washington. Wish me luck!