Daily Work Gps Use

[flir67]

how many of you use gps in your everyday job. I'm just curious. I'm not talking about geocaching or using it to drive to work , I mean use it for work along side your job hand in hand? what companies are using it vs those who need to be.

[+Big Dawgg & Cardinal Girl]

I used my GPSr for many years at work. I drilled irrigation and water wells and had to use lat/lon to register them with the state. Also used to keep locations of wells that we had drilled.

[bug and snake]

I have navigated and positioned ships in every ocean of the world for data collection and construction purposes. All done with the aid of GPS in recent years.

[AZcachemeister]

I use mine DAILY to find and navigate to customer's street addresses. Of course, if there are any new caches in the area, I might take the long way home after work...

[+Huntceet]

While I don't get to use my GPSr in my regular job I do use it in my volunteer work. As a prairie restoration steward I log the coordinates of brush piles and areas of invasive plants that have been herbicided.

[+Pablo Mac]

I used to do GPS Land Survey work. The equipment I used included an antenna on top of a 2-meter pole, and it was so accurate it could tell me when the pole was plumb. Sub-centimeter accuracy rocks!

[+briansnat]

I guess this counts because it is work, though I'm not paid. I'm a trails supervisor and maintainer for a state forest. I use my GPS to create new hiking trails and to re-route sections of trail. I'll mark a waypoint for where the trail should end, then drive or hike to the starting point. I'll then follow the arrow and flag the route, making adjustments for terrain as I walk.

 

I've also used it to measure trails for hiking guide books and to trace the route for trail maps.

[+Planet]

This isn't as exciting as some of the others, but I used mine for mapping real estate showings.

[MooseMaMa]

Rescue & Recovery work with VATF-1 (Virginia Task Force 1, FEMA/USAID Urban Search and Rescue Team. (Not daily use, but used extensively when deployed on a mission).

[+Milbank]

I use my own Legend at work.

I do service work in rural area's of South Dakota and Minnesota.

[+pwcorg]

Almost daily use surveying new drop zones and/or setting up existing ones for use.

[+VesaK]

I don't do this daily, but I've sometimes marked positions of microwave Internet links and done some calculations on directing them for a small local ISP.

[+cudlecub]

I work in outside sales and frequently use my gps to mark the location to a business. I may be in a hurry to reach an appointment and see an interesting business I had overlooked before and I mark a waypoint to come back to it when I have time.

[+AtoZ]

This is an old topic you should do a search and see that thread, it was just up in the last month or so.

cheers

[+Crystal Sound]

In my day job, we use GPS for date & time synchronization of microprocessor controlled devices in electric transmission substations.

 

We also use it for a VERY accurate timing signal source for precision measurements of power flow over a multi-state area.

 

With that said, I still think geocaching is a more fun use of GPS.

[+Jeep_Dog]

Uh, yup, a GPSr is a critical piece of equipment in my line of work. My profile pretty much explains this obvious point.

[sporkboy]

I do lots of work in different cities around the world and I'm not the best navigator. I use it every day that I'm traveling to help me get back to my hotel at night after finding a place to eat. It is very handy and I'll never travel without one again.

[+mikeatnight]

I work for an internet provider. We have 2 gps receivers to get the accurate time for our phone switches and we also run the local time & Temp. We have a gps on top of a light pole that attaches to the thermoter and is fed to a PC inside the building. Here my voice at (270) 443.5050 We also have used my gps for setting up fixed wireless customers. We go to the location mark a waypoint and then either map it on the pc or go to our main wireless antenna to see how far away the waypoint is.

[+nmbobster]

Am a wildland firefighter, specifically a helitack firefighter. I use my own 76cs, also I have a GPS III + or GPS 12 for almost every member of my crew. We use these to help us find fires, find our way back from fires, and to map fires. We carry laptops on our support vehicles with ArcGIS and DNRGarmin installed so that we can produce fire maps. This has become a cool little value added service we provide that is very much appreciated by fire management folks.

[+hb'sbear04]

That's so funny - we were just talking about this at bunko tonight. A friend and I were talking, and I mentioned geocaching... she said she uses a GPSr for her job at the Soil & Water Conservation District to mark ponds, etc. She didn't know there was anything else to do with it...

 

mwhahahaha - now she wants to go geocaching with us... might have hooked another one into the fold.

[ucmike]

until i got laid off i used mine for finding locations of existing and proposed wireless systems -microwave and cellular. i used it to navigate to wilderness tower sites that had lats/longs on their paperwork (most don't have street addresses)

[+sept1c_tank]

Uh, yup, a GPSr is a critical piece of equipment in my line of work.    My profile pretty much explains this obvious point. 

Wow! You know Ollie?

[+jlday70]

We use a Trimble GPS systems to locate and excavate Ordnance and other metalic geophysical annomallys on old Military bases.

 

J Day

Migrant Bullet Picker

[+Milbank]

This is an old topic you should do a search and see that thread, it was just up in the last month or so.

cheers

Most everything around here is a old topic.

So what?

 

New people come around and old topics come up again and again, get use to it.

[+Rich the Bushwhacker]

I work for a trucking company with some old trucks. I use my legend as an accurate speedometer, most of the the 20+ year old Macks have inoperative or innacurate speedometers.

[Archaeologist-PA]

Working as an archaeologist, I use one almost daily. However, ours is a fancy $5000 Trimble.

[+~del Mar~]

I work for the census bureau. I use mine everyday for mapping and finding locations that have no known address.

Edited April 24, 2005 by ~del Mar~

[+Capt.Picard]

since i work on the water, i use mine very often

[+Wadcutter]

I'm a State Police commander. Every one of my Troops has GPS in their squad cars. The GPS is connected into their in-car computers which runs a mapping program. Crashes use to be identified by street, road, or highway location. With our computerized crash reports every crash in the state is now located by GPS coordinates. GPS coords are essential for locating addresses, during manhunts, sending out calls for service, etc. Don't know what we did before we had GPS in all the cars.

[+Capt. Jack & 1st Mate]

Okay, I'll weigh in here. As a fishing guide, I have all of my sturgeon holes marked so as I can select whichever one I intend to try and am able to go directly to it, then beyond 200' - 300' upstream or what the conditions warrant, and then drop anchor to slide back to 0'

 

Takes all of the searching with the depth finder and triangulating with landmarks out of the picture.

 

And no, my co-ords are NOT for sale.

 

Edited April 24, 2005 by Capt. Jack & 1st Mate