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Garmin Montana 650T Review – A Handheld GPS for Adventurers

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:05:48 +0000

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

Greg — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:54:25 +0000

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

Greg — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:37:01 +0000

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

Greg — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:13:17 +0000

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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Latitude and longitude 2

Greg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:20:40 +0000

In the first discussion of latitude and longitude, we investigated how the latitude-longitude grid was established. In this post we will look at how that relates to the display on your handheld GPS unit. If I stand outside with my GPS and direct the unit to display my position, it may do so in a […]

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