O.k. I have held out forever laughing at dash mount gps,s as I fold and unfold countless maps and am finaly looking at the hand held gps,s Bowing to superior Knowledge of the group here, am asking for advice touch screen ? mapping ? garmin Dakota 20 or Trek 30 are the ones that seem to have the needed features who has the real world experiance here I'm Lost as always Laughing Here !
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I don't Know how they do it, But If you take Pictures with your Cell-Phone someone can track your Pix's using the GPS on your phone.
I have this one. A Delorme Earthmate GPS PN-60. I have dropped it in mud and water and no troubles so it is waterproof as they say. I use it hunting and prospecting. Screen is not the largest but it is color and comes with free topo maps you can link on your laptop and if you put a SD card in it you can hold all of north America in it. I track my waking to tree stands and follow the track right back out. Its been fantastic.
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eTrex vista hcx is what i use Howard..cant make comparissons to others since this is my only one..but i like it....You can also use Breadcrumbs to find Your way back,as long as the birds dont get them.......KK
eTrex Venture "yellow bug" is the best. Simple & accurate. If I have a choice of ANY GPS, I'll work with that one.
Hey Dad, I use a variety of Garmins at school, from the TREK series, to the GEOMAP 60s, the Vista line, and a few others. I can bring some over- and you can test drive 'em.
Don't know why you didn't ask sooner!
After you get to really know how to use it you will love it, no matter the brand.
The more features it has the harder it is to learn how to use it BUT, the more it
will be able to do for you in the long run. Maps on it will be a LOVE / HATE kind
of thing. The lower price models have such small screens = lack of detail on there
maps= HATE !!! but you learn to live with it. Myself I ALWAYS try to have a paper
topo of any area I go to, = best detail and won't crap out on me in the field.
I have a topo of a desert type area that has a water fall marked on it, kind of an old
map but it's there, not on my GPS. Whats so great about that ? *** it,s on a drainage that
runs out of an old gold district thats what ! Now combind the GPS with the topo and
you have the very best you can get ! Have fun !!!!
Well XT thats solid advice and it kinda ties in with steel pans info so Now I wonder how much would I really use one ? Thanks !
I have a Garmin E-Trex Legend HCX. Only prob was in a deep narrow canyon it wasn't all that accurate as far as altitude.
It did help when I was searching for long/lat when researching coordiates for determining my claim corners. Still had me doin' some math.
Other than that, I still prefer using a Topo and a hand held Brunton transit. I have a Keuffel & Egger Abney (sp) too, to find degrees and/or percent of slope, but the Brunton helps with degrees of slope too. I have an altimiter from a B-24 I got from my Dad, but you have to concider high and low pressure variations and can, with figuring some averages over a period of time, come up with a fairly accurate actual altitude. It works fine for altitude comparisons on a real time basis.
I'm still skeptical about the results with a GPS though. I guess it's my dedication and confidence in the "Old school" ways my Dad taught me. (...and none of the tools he left me need batteries. ; ) )
It's all in knowing your tools of choice. -Smiling here-
BTW, that old altimiter makes a great barometer to recognize high and lows pressure variants moving into an area.
Yep That helps a little and thanks for the Laugh Dennis !
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