2009/10/13 Bob W <[email protected]>: > > You could always do it the old-fashioned way and write it down in a > notebook.
"Excuse me sir, D'you know the name of this place, and that mountain over there?" Works well most of the time, I agree. My case for buying a GPS logger (it's in the mail as I write, been back-ordered since about the time this thread started) is the trip to Antarctica. There are comparatively few official names on geographical features on that continent. The UK Antarctic Survey has a comprehensive list of suggested names online, however biased towards English speaking explorers' naming. It's a decent service anyway, though, as it usually lists any known naming controversies. So, if one has a GPS location, one can look up the point in the UK service database when back home, and get a more decent set of references than any available on one particular map. For this case a GPS beats a pen and notebook, gloved hands down. :-) Jostein -- 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.
