Handheld GPS | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:48:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Download Free Garmin GPS Maps Before You Drive this Summer https://boneblogger.com/download-free-garmin-gps-maps-before-you-drive-this-summer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=download-free-garmin-gps-maps-before-you-drive-this-summer Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:48:35 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2715 With the Summer period now here the chances are that you might be planning on a driving to see your relations or going to a new place that you haven’t driven in before.  If that sounds like you and you use a Garmin Nuvi GPS in order to help you get there then you should […]

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]]> Garmin Montana 650T Review – A Handheld GPS for Adventurers https://boneblogger.com/garmin-montana-650t-review-a-handheld-gps-for-adventurers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=garmin-montana-650t-review-a-handheld-gps-for-adventurers Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:05:48 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2722 Last year Garmin introduced three new handheld GPS devices for the Montana range.  There was the new 650T, 650, and 600 all of which come with an extra large 4-inch display and as well as offering voice guidance if you wish to also use it in your car as a standard GPS.  However, its main […]

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]]> Mapping the Pratt Mammoth excavation using GPS and basic surveying technology https://boneblogger.com/mapping-the-pratt-mammoth-excavation-using-gps-and-basic-surveying-technology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mapping-the-pratt-mammoth-excavation-using-gps-and-basic-surveying-technology Sat, 01 May 2010 19:54:25 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1206 The discovery of a partial mammoth skeleton in 1999, and its subsequent excavation in 2000, provided an opportunity to implement several innovations in the on-site mapping of the excavation and relating the excavation to real-world coordinate systems. What follows is a basic primer on what we did. The mammoth specimen was found during the excavation […]

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]]> Personal GPS tracking https://boneblogger.com/personal-gps-tracking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=personal-gps-tracking Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:37:01 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1063 In exploring handheld GPS units I came across something that was really interesting and has a lot of fun promise. It is the SPOT Personal Tracker. The Personal Tracker is a device that you can carry with you while traveling on remote, or not so remote, adventures. It uses the same GPS satellite systems that […]

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]]> UTM https://boneblogger.com/utm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=utm Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:13:17 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=156 In a couple of previous posts we have examined latitude and longitude in some detail, and explored in what format the numbers might be displayed on your handheld GPS unit. Here we will explore another commonly used coordinate system: UTM. Latitude and longitude work well, but since they are all based upon circles, and because […]

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