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Chapter 4 Finding Your Location with the Global Positioning System
However you get involved with geocaching, a useful utility for managing
geocached data and waypoints from different software packages is the Geocaching Swiss Army Knife, available for free download at http://www.gsak.
net. This utility comes with a free trial and helps manage geocaching data.
Closing Time
This lab illustrated some initial planning concepts and some directions in
which to take GPS field work (and some caches and benchmarks that are out
there waiting for you to find) to help demonstrate some of the chapter’s concepts. The two geocaching field exercises described above can also be adapted
to classroom use to help expand the computer portion of this lab with some
GPS field work as well.
Starting with Chapter 5, you’ll begin integrating some new concepts of
geographic information systems to your geospatial repertoire.
Chapter 4 Finding Your Location with the Global Positioning System
However you get involved with geocaching, a useful utility for managing
geocached data and waypoints from different software packages is the Geocaching Swiss Army Knife, available for free download at http://www.gsak.
net. This utility comes with a free trial and helps manage geocaching data.
Closing Time
This lab illustrated some initial planning concepts and some directions in
which to take GPS field work (and some caches and benchmarks that are out
there waiting for you to find) to help demonstrate some of the chapter’s concepts. The two geocaching field exercises described above can also be adapted
to classroom use to help expand the computer portion of this lab with some
GPS field work as well.
Starting with Chapter 5, you’ll begin integrating some new concepts of
geographic information systems to your geospatial repertoire.