I am forwarding this reply, along with my comments, to: Delorme
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: After DeLorme atlases

>
> I would guess that very soon we will start seeing in tweeters
> lat/long or UTM coordinates from GPS units when reporting
> a sighting. It's sure easy. I have a unit and do all my
> notebook entries -- birds, mammals, plants -- with coordinates
> from my Garmin 12XL.
My problem is that we need some sort of grid and marginal information
in order to narrow down our search. We need more than the lat/long in
the corner of the page.

I also don't get any "intuitive" sense of the location from UTMs.
with lat/long , or section, Twsp and Range, I can figure out ROUGHLY
where on the planet this plant, or bird is.
> I have a lot of DeLorme's and it seems to me that with each
> new state the maps get coarser and uglier. Less resolution,
> less auxiliary information.
>
> -Tully Hammill
Clarice Clark
jbroadus at seanet.com
Puyallup, WA. 98371