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Re: GPS & Magnetic Bearings
From: Pierre Boucher
Date: 2003 Feb 9, 22:56 -0500
From: Pierre Boucher
Date: 2003 Feb 9, 22:56 -0500
>GPS has no provision to determine direction. For example on a trip to
>Japan I had a way point for my hotel in a big city. Many blocks away I
>knew I needed to head in a certain direction to get back, but the GPS has
>no compass functionality.
Now some models do (even handheld). Some Garmin and Magellan recents
models integrate and active compass.
Pierre Boucher
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