Where Else Do You Use Your Gpsr

[kayaker22589]

Hiking, and finding cool things on photo map software.

[+Team FUBAR]

ok I got one for ya. I think this is kindof neat actually. I have a few accounts that I snowplow in the winter. These are huge parking lots like malls and I even do one that's basically the sizre of a airport. So anyways I go out in the summer right before the snow falls and I mark things like holes, downed light poles, concrete barriers, driveways, anything that might hurt if I hit it in the middle of the night cause I can't see it under the snow. Then I use the mapping mode in my truck so I always have a moving map of where I am in the lot and what I have to be careful around. Not a bad idea for all you other guys.

[+DavidMac]

Ah, I see this topic is back. When I wasn't caching this summer, I spent my time working on my thesis up in the Smoky Mountains. My caching skills came in handy more than once- we had staked out sites and marked them with GPS early in the summer before the ferns sprouted up and the brush grew in nice and thick. Come back later in the season, and you have to, after using the GPS to get you close to the site, locate a 6-inch tall PVC pipe marker in waist-deep brush while trying not to trample the vegetation too much (it was what we were studying, after all!) I couldn't help but notice how closely it resembled caching- I just thought of it as a hunt for a needle-in-a-haystack micro cache and dove in. To make the experience even more like caching, we even had to deal with bad coordinates and, since we were close to a very popular trail, muggles wondering what we were up to.

 

Here's a wide shot of terrain near one of the sites (at least we had good sat coverage- no tree cover!):

 

 

This is typical of the brush we had to wade through while getting to the sites and finding the corner posts:

Edited August 31, 2004 by DavidMac

[+Fireman78]

My Dad has a cool use for his GPS (that I got for him). He flies an ultralight (Powered Parachute) to be exact. He made himself a mount for the Meridian Platniun GPS and basically uses it as his instrament panel while flying. When he first started flying before the GPS, he had a hard time finding his farm, cause SW Missouri all looks the same I guess. Now he just GOTO's his house and heads right for it...

[+Wyoming Travelers]

Jeeping, and out of state travel

[Neos2]

Finding my car in the parking lot.

 

I wish I had mine a few months ago---I picked up a rental car for a trip, then went to the store to pick up some last minute items, and when I came out I could almost remember where I parked, but not what kind of car I had!

Edited August 31, 2004 by Neos2

[+wilsonjw]

I bought my first GPSr, a Garmin GPS III in 1998, because my wife and I were going to hike a poorly-marked "trail" over rock and ice in Olympic National Park. Since then, I've used that unit all over the U.S. and Canada, as far north as the Arctic Ocean. This year, I bought a Garmin GPSMAP 60C, and really like the added features. That's when I started geocaching.

 

So, my primary uses are hiking, kayaking, backpacking, and geocaching. I've recently purchased a new handheld transceiver that accepts a GPS input and uses that data to transmit that position to other network participants on the 2 meter amateur radio band.

[+wilsonjw]

I bought my first GPSr, a Garmin GPS III in 1998, because my wife and I were going to hike a poorly-marked "trail" over rock and ice in Olympic National Park. Since then, I've used that unit all over the U.S. and Canada, as far north as the Arctic Ocean. This year, I bought a Garmin GPSMAP 60C, and really like the added features. That's when I started geocaching.

 

So, my primary uses are hiking, kayaking, backpacking, and geocaching. I've recently purchased a new handheld transceiver that accepts a GPS input and uses that data to transmit that position to other network participants on the 2 meter amateur radio band.

[+Joypa]

I use mine to get out of the woods.

[+The Roving Ravenstones]

Yard sale navigation! We live just outside of detroit and there is a lot of real estate to cover when you want to do some serious yard sale-ing. just type in the address and of you go! It's kinda like caching, maybe, just a little....