GPS Usage for Backpacking in Europe
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From: Andreas H. Zappel on 14 Nov 2009 01:36 Alfred Molon <alfred_molon(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >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). Tell me, what are the clothes and the toothbrush for? In every city you can find shops to buy new clothes and a toothbrush. <eg> Greetings from Cologne Andreas
From: Daniel Masse on 14 Nov 2009 02:51 "Darkstar87695" <Darkstar87695.41llrb(a)no-mx.forums.travel.com> a �crit dans le message de news: Darkstar87695.41llrb(a)no-mx.forums.travel.com... > > 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 If you are packpacking, weight is important : you will carry only what is absolutely necessary. I have found a hand-held GPS very useful when I go hiking in the backcountry, to find the way back to the car, or to plan a round walk in uncharted country. In Europe - at least in France, Switzerland and Austria, you will find excellent maps, to a scale of 1/25000. You will also find superb walking guidebooks, very detailed and with trail maps (of course, they will be written in the local language...). Some of these trails go long distance, and guidebooks are written for them. Anyway, a GPS is useless without a map : it tells you the coordinates of where you are, but you need the map to find out where you are. And looking for the coordinates of a point on a map is not easy, when you are in the woods, particularly if it rains... Have a nice hike !
From: Alfred Molon on 14 Nov 2009 04:08 In article <hdlg4i$t4l$1(a)aioe.org>, Gerald Oliver Swift says... > When I am away on holiday / > travelling - I am incommunicado, period. I like to be in constant communication instead. > With travel these days, it's almost as if you've already been there before > you've even arrived. That's good because it allows you to better plan yout trips. With Google Earth you can for instance check the places before you visit them. -- Alfred Molon http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe
From: Mike Lane on 14 Nov 2009 06:08 Daniel Masse wrote on Nov 14, 2009: > Anyway, a GPS is useless without a map : it tells you the coordinates of > where you are, but you need the map to find out where you are. And looking > for the coordinates of a point on a map is not easy, when you are in the > woods, particularly if it rains... I use a non-mapping GPS all the time when walking. It's not difficult to pinpoint your position on a good paper map using the GPS coordinates, and the paper map will always give you far more detail than any digital one. The main point of the GPS though is that you can record important positions (like your starting point where you left the car) and be confident that you can find it again. It also draws a 'breadcrumb trail' which it's easy to match with your intended route on the map, and you can use it to retrace your steps accurately if necessary. I find it an enormous help when walking and wouldn't be without it. -- Mike Lane UK North Yorkshire email: mike_lane at mac dot com
From: Mike Lane on 14 Nov 2009 06:38
Alfred Molon wrote on Nov 13, 2009: > 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). I'm also trying to find a good way to do exactly that. The problem I've found with most GPS data loggers is that they seem designed to record a track log of a single trip with an enormous number of points (often recording at 1 point per second), which you then download to a computer to process. I am looking for something which I can take away for three weeks or more, storing one or more tracks each day before I finally return and download them all for processing. My solution so far is to use an ordinary handheld GPS unit and record a waypoint when I take a photo. I will then end up with several hundred waypoints on the GPS which can be matched to the images using the image file's time and date stamp. I can then geotag the images by copying the coordinates into the image file's EXIF metadata. It's rather laborious and not ideal, but it's a lot better than nothing -- Mike Lane UK North Yorkshire email: mike_lane at mac dot com |