+kone Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 I've noticed that in many posts, people refer to their GPS as a GPSr. What does the extra "r" stand for? Link to comment
aPeacefulWarrior Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 Calling a GPS receiver just a GPS would be incorrect since GPS referes to the entire system, hence the name Global Positioning System. A GPS receiver receives signals from the GPS... thus it's name. Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 Common usage is GPS. Some people like to add the r so that we know they are not packing the satellites in their pockets. 1 Link to comment
+CurmudgeonlyGal Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 ...ahem... Is that a satellite in your pocket, or are you happy to see me? -=- michelle Link to comment
+SixDogTeam Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 The "r" stands for ratb_ _ _ _ _d Link to comment
+geospotter Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 It's the functional equivalent of calling your TV a TVr. Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 ...ahem... Is that a satellite in your pocket, or are you happy to see me? -=- michelle Yes. Link to comment
ghOzt Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 It's the functional equivalent of calling your TV a TVr. Well put. When speaking, why would you want an added syllable? I just use GPS. Link to comment
thorin Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 It's the functional equivalent of calling your TV a TVr. Well put. When speaking, why would you want an added syllable? I just use GPS. I disagree. TV isn't short form for an entire system. That'd be more like TVBS (TeleVision Broadcast System). Thorin IMHO 2 Link to comment
WH Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 Call it what you want as long as it points to the cache Link to comment
+OzGuff Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 (edited) Call it what you want as long as it points to the cache Once again we find ourselves at the question, "Is that a GPS/GPSr in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" Edited May 11, 2004 by OzGuff Link to comment
+Nurse Dave Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 whew, 10 points to tell them what the r is for. Well 11 now. Link to comment
+Calcows Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 I think anyone who can figure out geocaching, can figure out the if you do not use the "r", they will not be think you are carrying the satellite around. As in " I dropped my GPS on the ground when I was signing the log sheet". Or I use a Garmin 64st GPS. Pretty sure nobody will confuse it with a satellite. 1 Link to comment
+niraD Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Calcows said: I think anyone who can figure out geocaching, can figure out the if you do not use the "r", they will not be think you are carrying the satellite around. As in " I dropped my GPS on the ground when I was signing the log sheet". Or I use a Garmin 64st GPS. Pretty sure nobody will confuse it with a satellite. And if you refer to "the GPS system", people will know what you're talking about, even though "GPS" means "Global Positioning System", so technically, what you're referring to is "the Global Positioning System system". Still, some people like using words correctly... Link to comment
+TriciaG Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 15 hours ago, Calcows said: I think anyone who can figure out geocaching, can figure out the if you do not use the "r", they will not be think you are carrying the satellite around. As in " I dropped my GPS on the ground when I was signing the log sheet". Or I use a Garmin 64st GPS. Pretty sure nobody will confuse it with a satellite. You resurrected a 13-year-old thread to say this? LOL! Link to comment
+VegasScotty Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 On 12/31/2017 at 6:41 PM, Calcows said: I think anyone who can figure out geocaching, can figure out the if you do not use the "r", they will not be think you are carrying the satellite around. As in " I dropped my GPS on the ground when I was signing the log sheet". Or I use a Garmin 64st GPS. Pretty sure nobody will confuse it with a satellite. Welcome back to 2004! LOL 3 Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 3 hours ago, VegasScotty said: Welcome back to 2004! LOL Smart phones with a geocaching app came along later than that. I started in 2007 with a handheld GPS. There were a few people that were using palm pilots for "paper free" geocaching but they didn't use it for finding the cache. I had a Motorola Razr and an app that would convert geocache listings into PDFs so that i could view them on the phone but it didn't have a GPS. The first iPhone came out in 2007 which did not have an integrated GPS. The 3G was the first model to have one and came out in 2008. I had one and the accuracy left a lot to be desired. I have a Samsung 8 now and use it for geocaching often, except when I'm traveling abroad. Then I still use a handheld GPS. Link to comment
+VegasScotty Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Not what I meant... check the dates of these posts... someone revived a topic from 13 YEARS AGO. LOL On 1/2/2018 at 4:02 AM, NYPaddleCacher said: Smart phones with a geocaching app came along later than that. I started in 2007 with a handheld GPS. There were a few people that were using palm pilots for "paper free" geocaching but they didn't use it for finding the cache. I had a Motorola Razr and an app that would convert geocache listings into PDFs so that i could view them on the phone but it didn't have a GPS. The first iPhone came out in 2007 which did not have an integrated GPS. The 3G was the first model to have one and came out in 2008. I had one and the accuracy left a lot to be desired. I have a Samsung 8 now and use it for geocaching often, except when I'm traveling abroad. Then I still use a handheld GPS. Link to comment
+igator210 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 On 5/10/2004 at 1:06 AM, aPeacefulWarrior said: Calling a GPS receiver just a GPS would be incorrect since GPS referes to the entire system, hence the name Global Positioning System. A GPS receiver receives signals from the GPS... thus it's name. So on an even MORE technical note, you don't receive a signal from a GPS, rather you would receive it from a GPSs(atellite). For the wordy folks out there, you shouldn't say "I used my GPS..." since the [my] implies you have a private system. However, you can say "I used the GPS..." because that implies you used the public system. I tend not to care and can extrapolate what people mean in their logs. Link to comment
+TriciaG Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 4 hours ago, igator210 said: So on an even MORE technical note, you don't receive a signal from a GPS, rather you would receive it from a GPSs(atellite). Would it be a GPSs, or a GPSt(ransmitter)? Are there GPS transmitters that aren't satellites? Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) 11 hours ago, TriciaG said: Would it be a GPSs, or a GPSt(ransmitter)? Are there GPS transmitters that aren't satellites? I suppose that the satellites could be considered GPS transmitters but they're not actually transmitting coordinates. Each satellite is basically just transmitting it's position and the current time. A GPS receiver, by reading signals from four (at least) satellites can tell how long it took to receive those signals, and using the distance to each satellite, can determine it's location represented as lat/long coordinates through the use of a transliteration algorithm. A GPS transmitter is a bit of a misnomer. Consider an application such as "Find my phone". It uses the GPS receiver chip to determine it's location and stores it in the app, but it's not transmitting it back to GPS satellites. It's working as a GPS receiver to calculate it's position than transmitting that data to some other location (e.g. a server on the internet) where it can be viewed using a browser or client/server application. Edited January 5, 2018 by NYPaddleCacher Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Wow, that's quite the thread resurrection I tend to say "GPSr" as a quick way to refere explicitly to a handheld/dedicated GPS device, and use GPS referring to any gps-capable device. Smartphone for smartphones, obv (even though a smartphone is also handheld). So I use "GPSr" as a subset of "GPS" most often; but that's just me. 1 Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 I think we can put this nearly 14 year old thread to bed. Not much to add to the original question 1 Link to comment
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