Even with plenty of geographical features and a good sense of orienteering, there are times when a GPS could mean the difference between lost and found. As Rob says, with limited visibility, geographical features you can use to pinpoint your position is fewer than needed. Combined with suggestions from a GPS you may narrow down the possibilities enough to make sense of what little you can see in real-life and on a good map. :-)
The main mistake people make is to substitute common sense for trust in a gadget. ... which applies to DSLRs too, in case we'd like to stray on-topic... :-) Jostein 2009/8/11 Rob Studdert <[email protected]>: > On 11/08/2009, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
