On 11/08/2009, Doug Franklin <jehosep...@mindspring.com> wrote: > There's almost always /something/ in an inhabited area. If you've got the > right maps, they'll include individual buildings and the like, in addition > to roads and terrain features. Yeah, it's a lot easier to get lost, and a > lot harder to correlate the sights with the map, but it is doable. (Maybe > not by /me/, though :-) ) I've known some amazing "orienteers" over the > years.
So much Aussie bush that I traverse has next to no man made points of reference and such limited visibility that even geo contours are nigh on impossible to follow. GPS helps, I guess the guys who put it up there thought so also ;-) -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
