GPS Usage for Backpacking in Europe
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From: Alfred Molon on 13 Nov 2009 18:43 In article <hdkcif$qm9$1(a)aioe.org>, Gerald Oliver Swift says... > > Preferably one that uses a different charger to the ones you must already > carry for your > a) mobile phone > b) spare mobile phone > c) I-pod / mp3 player > d) digital camera > e) video camera > f) portable DVD-player > g) portable note-book > h) electric shaver / epilator > > Hasn't travel recently got soooooooooooo complicated! Indeed, but that is life. But do you really want to go back to the days when there was no Internet and no email? By the way, most people travel only with a mobile phone, notebook, digital camera and a shaver (and of course some clothes and a toothbrush). -- Alfred Molon http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe
From: poldy on 14 Nov 2009 00:05 In article <MPG.2567e0893db28fc298c1b1(a)news.supernews.com>, Alfred Molon <alfred_molon(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I don't have an answer, but I'm also looking for such a thing, to be > able to assign the GPS coordinates to the photos I take. A GPS logger > would suffice for the purpose, but I've been thinking that a unit with a > screen and maps would be more interesting (as long as it has a logging > capability). > There are also mobile phones with a GPS receiver (for instance the Nokia > models), and these could be an option if the include maps and GPS > logging. Something with a screen probably won't have the same battery life as a logger. iPhone has applications which use the GPS receiver to save the points when you take pictures and uploads those points to a web site. Then later you would sync the pictures with those points. But battery life and possibly expensive mobile data works against this setup. There are a couple of models with GPS built in but these use up battery and they don't acquire the satellites that fast. Nikon has a external module for their DSLRs but uses the camera's battery.
From: poldy on 14 Nov 2009 00:08 In article <hdkcif$qm9$1(a)aioe.org>, "Gerald Oliver Swift" <goswift(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Preferably one that uses a different charger to the ones you must already > carry for your > a) mobile phone > b) spare mobile phone > c) I-pod / mp3 player > d) digital camera > e) video camera > f) portable DVD-player > g) portable note-book > h) electric shaver / epilator EU got most of the big mobile phone makers to sign on to using USB or mini-USB plugs to charge. Apple's iPhone wall charger is a USB port on one side and you can plug in any USB cable (USB to USB or USB to mini USB) and that charger should be usable for other devices which take USB. You can' use it for notebooks but there's no reason digicams couldn't use USB to charge.
From: Runge17 on 14 Nov 2009 00:13 martin just had to post his useless stuff !! Ho ho ho and back to bed. "Martin" <me(a)address.invalid> a �crit dans le message de news:f7mrf55nm59ihhru84kfcfqm89lgimjqrj(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:41:40 -0600, erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> > wrote: > >>In article <Darkstar87695.41llrb(a)no-mx.forums.travel.com>, >> Darkstar87695 <Darkstar87695.41llrb(a)no-mx.forums.travel.com> wrote: >> >>> Hey everyone, I'm an 18 year old from Florida and I have always wanted >>> to travel. In a few years I will be taking a summer to go to Europe. I >>> will be backpacking from Greece all the way to the UK. I have not >>> finished planning this trip and will be using this site for that also, >>> but i have a quick question for everyone. Would a hend held GPS be a >>> good investment for this trip? and if so then which one do u suggest?:D >> >>Well, it depends on how you plan to use it. I have one I take hiking >>and I took it along on some trips to Europe. It's a Garmin eTrex. >>Narrow streets with tall buildings can make it lose its satellites, but >>if I've marked my starting point, I can always get back to it by getting >>out into the open to get my bearing, even if it has gaps in the route >>I've followed to get there.. However, you should also have a map with >>points of interest you might want to visit. The kind that actually have >>maps are not going to have as much detail as an actual paper map offers, >>so I just got a basic one to use WITH paper maps. >> >>Note: it's been particularly useful for me because local guides have a >>tendency to walk too fast and leave me behind. > > You may recall that Mixi navigates his way around Paris using just an old > fashioned mapless phoneless GPS receiver and the coordinates of his > friends/McDs > -- > > Martin > >
From: Gerald Oliver Swift on 14 Nov 2009 00:45
"Alfred Molon" <alfred_molon(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:MPG.25680d84af9484a98c1b3(a)news.supernews.com... > In article <hdkcif$qm9$1(a)aioe.org>, Gerald Oliver Swift says... >> >> Preferably one that uses a different charger to the ones you must already >> carry for your >> a) mobile phone >> b) spare mobile phone >> c) I-pod / mp3 player >> d) digital camera >> e) video camera >> f) portable DVD-player >> g) portable note-book >> h) electric shaver / epilator >> >> Hasn't travel recently got soooooooooooo complicated! > > Indeed, but that is life. But do you really want to go back to the days > when there was no Internet and no email? It wouldn't inconvenience me in the slightest. When I am away on holiday / travelling - I am incommunicado, period. I do sometimes wonder, though, what travel was like before the advent of the guidebook / brochure / TV program / YouTube video etc. With travel these days, it's almost as if you've already been there before you've even arrived. Gerry |