Tahosa and Sons Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 Ever wonder what your current Declination is even though the 1927 map says xxdeg. Check out this link. What you are looking for is "D" http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/seg/gmag/fldsnth1.pl All you need is your Zip, and it will calculate the changes since 1927 or farther back. The "Bushwhacker" Exitus acta probat >>---> Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 -2 degrees. Small enough to ignore, I think. Quote Link to comment
+Hawk-eye Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 Geesh ... thanks Bushwhacker ... just what I need ... another interesting site ... to keep checking on when I get bored! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Co-founder of the "NC/VA GEO-HOG ASSOCIATION" ... when you absolutely have to find it first! Quote Link to comment
+Hawk-eye Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 Geesh ... thanks Bushwhacker ... just what I need ... another interesting site ... to keep checking on when I get bored! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Co-founder of the "NC/VA GEO-HOG ASSOCIATION" ... when you absolutely have to find it first! Quote Link to comment
crr003 Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 2 deg is 184 feet error after 1 mile. But as other people have said, if you use a compass to "home in" from a couple hundred feet, it doesn't really matter. Unless you're in Arctic/Antarctic. But then the compass wouldn't work anyway Quote Link to comment
crr003 Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 2 deg is 184 feet error after 1 mile. But as other people have said, if you use a compass to "home in" from a couple hundred feet, it doesn't really matter. Unless you're in Arctic/Antarctic. But then the compass wouldn't work anyway Quote Link to comment
+Jamie Z Posted August 29, 2002 Share Posted August 29, 2002 So far, I win. 12 Minutes. Jamie Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted August 29, 2002 Author Share Posted August 29, 2002 OOPs I'm Lost this should be its own topic!! Are you ready for a good line of govermental *ull*hit! This is the letter I received from the county this afternoon. I am responding to your inquiry regarding geocaching at the Devil's Backbone Open Space. After a six month trial period where we've monitored geocaching on our Parks and Open Lands Properties, we recently have decided department-wide to not allow geocaching primarily due to resource damage, trespass by geocachers' onto adjacent private lands, and lack of formal request to place cache's on our properties. It is important to our mission to balance natural resource protection while allowing acceptable outdoor recreation on properties such as the Devil's Backbone. One means to minimize impacts to natural resources (i.e. foothills grassland vegetation, rock outcrops, nesting raptors, etc.) is to require users to remain on designated trails. Particularly at the Devil's Backbone Open Space, rangers have observed geocachers leaving the designated trail on the open space as well as leaving the open space boundaries and wandering onto private property as they try to find the virtual caches. While the GPS unit points users in a straight line, our trails wind and bend and many users have not stayed on the trails as they follow the "arrow" towards the cache point. Good relationships with adjacent private landowners is critical to our mission as well, and complaints from our neighbors of geocachers trespassing on their properties is a concern. At this time, we have had no formal request from geocachers requesting permission to place cache's (virtual or traditional) on our properties which is a concern to us as well. We would appreciate your removing the coordinates for the virtual caches at the Devil's Backbone Open Space from your website. I hope this email helps to answer your question and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions. Respectfully, Meegan Flenniken Resource Specialist Larimer County Parks and Open Lands 1800 S. County Rd. 31 Loveland, CO 80537 (970) 679-4562 (970) 679-4562 The "Bushwhacker" Exitus acta probat >>---> Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted August 29, 2002 Author Share Posted August 29, 2002 OOPs I'm Lost this should be its own topic!! Are you ready for a good line of govermental *ull*hit! This is the letter I received from the county this afternoon. I am responding to your inquiry regarding geocaching at the Devil's Backbone Open Space. After a six month trial period where we've monitored geocaching on our Parks and Open Lands Properties, we recently have decided department-wide to not allow geocaching primarily due to resource damage, trespass by geocachers' onto adjacent private lands, and lack of formal request to place cache's on our properties. It is important to our mission to balance natural resource protection while allowing acceptable outdoor recreation on properties such as the Devil's Backbone. One means to minimize impacts to natural resources (i.e. foothills grassland vegetation, rock outcrops, nesting raptors, etc.) is to require users to remain on designated trails. Particularly at the Devil's Backbone Open Space, rangers have observed geocachers leaving the designated trail on the open space as well as leaving the open space boundaries and wandering onto private property as they try to find the virtual caches. While the GPS unit points users in a straight line, our trails wind and bend and many users have not stayed on the trails as they follow the "arrow" towards the cache point. Good relationships with adjacent private landowners is critical to our mission as well, and complaints from our neighbors of geocachers trespassing on their properties is a concern. At this time, we have had no formal request from geocachers requesting permission to place cache's (virtual or traditional) on our properties which is a concern to us as well. We would appreciate your removing the coordinates for the virtual caches at the Devil's Backbone Open Space from your website. I hope this email helps to answer your question and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions. Respectfully, Meegan Flenniken Resource Specialist Larimer County Parks and Open Lands 1800 S. County Rd. 31 Loveland, CO 80537 (970) 679-4562 (970) 679-4562 The "Bushwhacker" Exitus acta probat >>---> Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 If I set my GPS to magnetic, not true, it will tell me the declination. If I then turn it off, and select a location, using the map, I can tell it to be anywhere in the world. After that, I check the Course set-up page again, and there the declination for the new position is shown. No more accurate than the declination table in the unit, of course, but probably good enough for most uses. Anders Quote Link to comment
azog Posted August 30, 2002 Share Posted August 30, 2002 -13 here ---------- One banana, two banana, three banana, four. Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more. Quote Link to comment
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