+skeeter-n-lucy Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Hi all, I am travelling to the UK in October for an educational summit. I want to take my GPS. Being Geo - centric to the US, I am curious....will my Merigold work in the UK? I assume that it will but you know what happens when we ASSUME!. I guess I will have to buy some software for the UK or just do without maps..... If this post needs to be moved, please do so!! I might even sneak my Garmin forerunner out on the flight over!!! Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 AFAIK, it should work (although you may have to do without maps...) . You also won't get WAAS reception there (although I don't know if you'll pick up a different signal instead), but the general functioning of the GPS system is global. Quote Link to comment
+Sputnik 57 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Check with Auntie Weasel. She goes to the UK to cache from time to time. She's a very helpful mustelid. Quote Link to comment
+Spnoo Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 (edited) I've had WAAS/EGNOS (Sats 33, 37 and 39) a few times here in the UK. You just need a fairly clear view of the horizon to the south. GPS works just fine Edited August 30, 2005 by Spnoo Quote Link to comment
WH Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 The satellites work worldwide. The only thing you need to watch for is that you enter your latitude using either West or East depending which side of Greenwich you're on at the time. Quote Link to comment
+John & Hazel Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Your GPSr will work fine here in the UK. As for maps, they are slightly better than Your US topo Maps. Check out this Cache Page Click on the Streetmap link and have a look. As for the mapping software. it is fairly expensive. Paper Maps cost approx £7.00. Sorry you'll have to do the sums You don't say where you are visiting. Pop in to the UK Forum. We are very friendly Quote Link to comment
+skeeter-n-lucy Posted August 31, 2005 Author Share Posted August 31, 2005 Blackburn Lancashire, London, and a town where the University of Woolverampton is. It is an educational summit on using Interactive Whiteboards. I won the trip in a lesson contest through Promethean Inc... Maybe I'll find a few caches while there.... Quote Link to comment
nobby.nobbs Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 come over to the uk website when you've dates and i'm sure you'll find some local cachers who'll take you nder their wing and lend you there maps for a cache trip or two. i regularly get waas/egnos lock. unfortunately you'll be a bit too far north for me. have fun. i resisted the sarcastic reply but it was very tempting!!! Quote Link to comment
+Mr Nibbler Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 I can add little to the advice given by my fellow Brit cachers. WAAS/EGNOS may work - not gone fully live yet. As for caches enter the following postcodes into the ZIP box on the search page: BB1 7JG for Blackburn town centre, WV1 1SB for the University of Wolverhampton To save the $12 ish per paper map just go to the Streetmap.co.uk link and print out copies of the OS 1:50,000 before you cross the pond - admittedly not as good as the 1:25,000s but useable. London is awash with caches so you need to know a bit more accurately where you are going to be staying. Once again the postcode is key but a google search normally does the trick. Have a good trip. Quote Link to comment
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