handheld GPS units | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:05:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 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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]]> Latitude & Longitude https://boneblogger.com/latitude-longitude/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latitude-longitude Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:28:06 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=149 Thought question: when you are standing at the North Pole, which direction are you looking? A topic that I think people find a bit confusing is the coordinate systems commonly used in their handheld GPS units. The handheld GPS can tell you your exact location, and this is because cartographers have partitioned the surface of […]

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