Subject: Re: After DeLorme atlases
Date: Aug 11 21:46:34 1997
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net




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> From: Clarice Clark and Jerry Broadus <jbroadus at seanet.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: After DeLorme atlases
> Date: Friday, August 08, 1997 9:33 AM
>
> 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