Among all the choice comments I received, one critic complained that I neglected to give the altitude, another asked if I could please render the location in Loran-C, and a third suggested that the description should begin by specifying "Planet Earth".
Really, GPS is quite sufficient to identify the location. The trouble is that not everyone has a GPS capable device in his pocket, or wishes to make use of it. I can tell you from substantial experience that giving the county, township and road is not nearly enough information to get most birders onto the birds whose absence I was reporting yesterday. But then, neither is the GPS! The terrain is so rugged that knowing what route to take is at least as valuable as knowing the destination coordinates. Interestingly, this is true not just out in the trackless forest, but even for the street addresses in my neighborhood. I run a home business, and new clients are forever asking for my address, assuming that all they have to do is plug it into their GPS devices, and they'll be presented with reliable driving directions. What wild detours they go off upon! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
