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Originally Posted by porsche4life
Randy, like glen said, unless the maps are stored in memory, it will be useless. Why not get a purpose built gps, that is more rugged, will be able to locate you in the backcountry, and will load the maps.
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I suspect that is what I'll have to do.
I'm not even sure the iPhone or iPad have enuff GPSS antennas in them to do it right.
But, you'd think somebody would make an a plug in pod you could strap to the nice hi-res iPad screen and use... maybe the Dual 150 GPS is what I need...
Ted - I am pretty good with map & compass, having spent 8 months/yr for 4 years in wild areas mapping things, plus some other time after that. In my off months, I sat in the basement of a building looking at U-2 overflight photos, which were on a big roll that you cranked to move across the landscape...
But a GPSS provides incredible capabilities for my work - I used to use a ground stn. for triangulation when I was working on an Army base some years ago - that let us locate things to a couple of inches.
Today, civilian systems are so good they can do that all by themselves, not to mention that some points of interest are easier to find via GPSS than via maps or aerial photos.