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Posted: 10/2/2004 10:03:19 PM EDT

I just bought a Garmin Etrex Legend today and it's amazing! Next weekend I'm going shooting in PA near Minersville and it's the best spot to shoot. It's hidden on the road side near a Wal-Mart and the ground is littered with literally hundreds of propane tanks, computer screens, TV's, bowling pins, etc. I'll be posting GPS coordinates next week.

Does anybody have GPS coordinates they'd like to share?

Posted: 10/2/2004 10:08:38 PM EDT

[#1]

if you have a cruise missle these are the coordinates to my house: N44 2' 2.56" and W92 38' 20.1"

Posted: 10/2/2004 10:10:11 PM EDT

[#2]

I dont have a GPS

Posted: 10/2/2004 10:17:33 PM EDT

[#3]

Is there a website where you can punch in GPS coordinates and it'll give you an approximate location via satellite?

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:36:23 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Is there a website where you can punch in GPS coordinates and it'll give you an approximate location via satellite?

www.topozone.com

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:41:34 AM EDT

[#5]

Go and download the programs here: jdmcox.com/

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:47:30 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Go and download the programs here: jdmcox.com/

Yep, satellite photos and topo maps of your area free for the download.
BTW, I use that program on my laptop with my gps plugged in for real time navigation on my boat. totally awesome!

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:51:02 AM EDT

[#7]

Tagged for later. I've got a couple of prairie dog towns marked but I think I'd just as soon keep those to myself.

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:52:25 AM EDT

[#8]

tagged

Posted: 10/3/2004 11:12:49 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
tagged

Ditto....I'm about to buy a GPS

Posted: 10/3/2004 11:13:46 AM EDT

[#10]

Posted: 10/3/2004 11:27:16 AM EDT

[#11]

N34Deg33.356'
W118Deg29.928'

Nice outdoor public range on L.A. Forest land, named 'A Place To Shoot'.

Posted: 10/3/2004 11:28:05 AM EDT

[#12]

If you want to go out and play with your new GPS, check out Geocaching.

Posted: 10/3/2004 11:33:59 AM EDT

[#13]

N35deg02.119'
W119deg00.631'

The California Aqueduct pump station and mega-huge pipes, near Grapevine CA, that were used in the miniseries 'V' for the scene of the motherships stealing the Earth's water.

Posted: 10/3/2004 11:36:30 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
If you want to go out and play with your new GPS, check out Geocaching.

Posted: 10/3/2004 11:42:31 AM EDT

[#15]

N 52'11.33
E000'04.08

Barton Road rifle range, Cambridgeshire England.

This is where they filmed the rifle range scenes for Full Metal Jacket

N51'36.42
E000.03.73

My house

N33.37.78
W111.54.63

Dillon Precision

There's more......................

Posted: 10/3/2004 11:54:28 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
If you want to go out and play with your new GPS, check out Geocaching.

heh. That's how I got THIS:

Fell off the ruins of an old dam, while going for cache GC4B09

N34deg32.884'
W118deg30.833'
is the spot 200' the West where I got helo-evacuated by a LA COunty Fire Dept Huey.

Posted: 10/3/2004 12:16:28 PM EDT

[#17]

Tagged

Posted: 10/3/2004 12:18:06 PM EDT

[#18]

Cool GPS Web Site

Posted: 10/3/2004 1:11:39 PM EDT

[#19]

Lat/Long is for sissies.

Real men use MGRS.

Posted: 10/3/2004 2:18:23 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Tagged for later. I've got a couple of prairie dog towns marked but I think I'd just as soon keep those to myself.

You could post in the team forum you stingy bastard

Posted: 10/3/2004 2:49:45 PM EDT

[#21]

I have Gunstock and Bulletfest Marked, along with a lot of good hunting spots.

I posed them elsewhere... (Gunstock Forum, Bulletfest Forum), but they are probably on archive server by now and I don't have them memorized.

about 300 waypoints right now.

Posted: 10/3/2004 2:59:29 PM EDT

[#22]

Geo cache...my DEP unit went out going after them, left army keychains in a few of them on Mount Diablo, called it a land nav course. Map/compass, terrain association, and pace counting. woohoo!

John

Posted: 10/3/2004 3:26:11 PM EDT

[#23]

Tagged

Posted: 10/3/2004 3:41:25 PM EDT

[#24]

If you park at:

N 39.07.939
W 106.10.899

...and hike to the top of the trail

...your GPS will look something like this (elevation)

...and the view will be this

Weston Pass, between San Isabel and Pike National Forests, Colorado

Posted: 10/3/2004 8:51:53 PM EDT

[#25]

I have a Garmin Etrex and had a Magellan 310 and I haven't got clue 1 of how to use them. I'm a techno-spaz! Any good reading that is comprehensable out there? No techno crap! Maybe I ought to go study with the Boyscouts

Posted: 10/11/2004 6:57:09 AM EDT

[#26]

Tagged

Posted: 10/11/2004 7:01:17 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
if you have a cruise missle these are the coordinates to my house: N44 2' 2.56" and W92 38' 20.1"

twomani, is your place around here?

Posted: 10/11/2004 7:05:50 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Quoted:
tagged

Ditto....I'm about to buy a GPS

Here is some info

http://gpsinformation.net/

http://www.gpsu.co.uk/download.html

http://www.gpscables.com/

http://redhensystems.com/ Link digital camera and GPS pretty cool

http://terraserver-usa.com/

http://www.gpsy.com/gpsinfo/

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/

Posted: 10/11/2004 7:40:14 AM EDT

[#29]

Make sure you set it for the correct datum on your topo maps.

It is proabally WGS 84

My quads are NAD 27 and I had to change mine to match.

If you dont, you will be a couple hundred feet off always.

Posted: 10/11/2004 8:10:59 AM EDT

[#30]

tagged...i'll have to get coordinates when I get home.

Posted: 10/11/2004 8:15:54 AM EDT

[#31]

tagged

Can you add maps to that one?

I have a Magellan FX324 color that I use for fishing. The detail of the maps is incredible.

Posted: 10/11/2004 8:24:15 AM EDT

[#32]

UTM (Universal Traverse Mercator ?) is easier to use. Basically the entire world is divided into 1kilometer grids. It's a simple matter to plot a location on a map, and a lot easier to figure out how far away it is. Ops

Posted: 10/11/2004 8:36:49 AM EDT

[#33]

Tagged...... cool stuff

will add some coords later

-Roth

Posted: 10/11/2004 8:45:31 AM EDT

[#34]

I've had an Etrex Legend for years. Make sure to go to the Garmin site and update it with the latest firmwhere.

Also, check out the Mapsource software from Garmin. Great for use with a laptop.

Have fun.

Ed

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