> > > > 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?" >
I should think any traveller knows where he is at any given time in this day and age, with the possible exception of Antarctica or PNG or similar places. Even there I can't imagine you would be going in without a map, an itinerary and the skills to use them. > 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. > I can understand the need for a GPS in a case like this. > 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. :-) I hope the GPS you've ordered has bigger buttons than mine! -- 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.
