Do you have a GPS?
- ag_pt
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I have a Magellan Meridian GPS (http://www.magellangps.com/en/products/ ... ?PRODID=89).
My current receiver replaced a Garmin GPS III Plus which was the victim of a road accident (a car just passed over it...)
Here's what Meridian GPS looks like :
There are only two colors, yellow and grey. Mine is yellow.
I'm pretty satisfied with its accuracy and it's easy to use. It has a good embedded feature: it receives W.A.A.S. (Wide Area Augmentation System) signal to get more accurate positioning and it really works, at least here in Southwestern Europe (does that work in Northern Europe too?) Unfortunately, the built-in maps are very poor and offer only a rough positional schema.
I'd like to have Magellan's MapSend software and maps, and to start geocaching someday.
The idea of a 5 euro note travelling by geocaching is a good idea!!! Who wants to start?
My current receiver replaced a Garmin GPS III Plus which was the victim of a road accident (a car just passed over it...)
Here's what Meridian GPS looks like :
There are only two colors, yellow and grey. Mine is yellow.
I'm pretty satisfied with its accuracy and it's easy to use. It has a good embedded feature: it receives W.A.A.S. (Wide Area Augmentation System) signal to get more accurate positioning and it really works, at least here in Southwestern Europe (does that work in Northern Europe too?) Unfortunately, the built-in maps are very poor and offer only a rough positional schema.
I'd like to have Magellan's MapSend software and maps, and to start geocaching someday.
The idea of a 5 euro note travelling by geocaching is a good idea!!! Who wants to start?
- lmviterbo
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It's already started.ag_pt wrote:The idea of a 5 euro note travelling by geocaching is a good idea!!! Who wants to start?
Sep 25, 2003: Some Italian forum guest says (in Italian) that geocaching.com has a link to EBT, and this was how he got here.
Oct 12 and Nov 01, 2003: A new triple hit was done (and up to now unmoderated) on a geocache note. It was discussed in the Suspicious notes forum. The last post on the subject is this.
- lmviterbo
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Conclusions
Thanks everyone for answering my plead and having participated in this poll.
Here are the fellow trackers who are now known to have a GPS receiver:
bhoeyb (BE, site and forum profiles) Garmin eTtrex Vista
Desertsailor (IT, site and forum profiles) Garmin III Plus
MDeen (NE, site and forum profiles) Garmin eMap
Niloc (FR, site and forum profiles) Garmin eTrex
ag_pt (PT, site and forum profiles) Magellan Meridian (previously Garmin III Plus)
Divine (FI, site and forum profiles)
Basisti (FI, site and forum profiles)
Captain_Morgan&Family (FI, site and forum profiles)
tigwash (DE, site profile)
hedberg (SW, site profile)
CyberJunkie (SW, site profile)
Plus:
wouter (forum and site {?} profiles) -- if his/her site url is correct, s/he has left EBT recently (without a hit)
bkaysimon (site url, only one note entered, found in a geocache, suspicious)
Here are the fellow trackers who are now known to have a GPS receiver:
bhoeyb (BE, site and forum profiles) Garmin eTtrex Vista
Desertsailor (IT, site and forum profiles) Garmin III Plus
MDeen (NE, site and forum profiles) Garmin eMap
Niloc (FR, site and forum profiles) Garmin eTrex
ag_pt (PT, site and forum profiles) Magellan Meridian (previously Garmin III Plus)
Divine (FI, site and forum profiles)
Basisti (FI, site and forum profiles)
Captain_Morgan&Family (FI, site and forum profiles)
tigwash (DE, site profile)
hedberg (SW, site profile)
CyberJunkie (SW, site profile)
Plus:
wouter (forum and site {?} profiles) -- if his/her site url is correct, s/he has left EBT recently (without a hit)
bkaysimon (site url, only one note entered, found in a geocache, suspicious)
- pinguino79
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Two years ago my mum bought a car equipped with a GPS system.
It's not a portable device, just for road travelling.
(NOTE: the GPS was not an optional, I never use it)
It's not a portable device, just for road travelling.
(NOTE: the GPS was not an optional, I never use it)
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When I drove taxi several years ago there was a data transmission system with GPS built into the cars. But it was not used for finding the way but for automatic placement of passenger requests to the nearest taxi. The GPS was also used for security reasons (pressing the alarm button would transmit the location of the taxi to the head office).
- Benighted
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i don't have one; i don't really care about it.. maybe i'll buy it when i have a new car, but at the moment i don't need it.
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I've had one for several years and buying a new car was not part of the equation.B3n|ght3d wrote:i don't have one; i don't really care about it.. maybe i'll buy it when i have a new car, but at the moment i don't need it.
What about the great hobby of Geocaching.
Also when I visit my local forest and park my car, by taking a reading at the car park I can always find my way back even in the dark, so you are never lost with a GPS.
Buy one and enjoy the great outdoors.
- tinka
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about 500 to 100 Euro's i gess.
it al depends to what you really want to have
it al depends to what you really want to have
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I have a Garmin 48 and I use it for sailing. I'm quite happy with it. Especially when connected to laptop having proper navigation software, like http://www.sping.com/seaclear/ it makes things much easier.