On the other hand, the medical director of the program I work for is one of
the parent/sponsors of his son's scout troop. The leaders of this troop
almost always use topo maps they get off their computers, such as found
accessable at Trails.com, plot GPS coordinates from the maps they get there,
then use those as a guide while they are out on their 3-4 day trips with
10-15 scouts. Been doing it for 6-7 years that way. Not a new techno-weenie
concept at all. They sometimes have to travel on unmarked desert roads in
So. Utah for 30-40 miles, with multiple, unmarked intersecting roads, to get
to some of these trailheads, and have never gotten lost....because they
follow the preplanned GPS maps/coordinates they created off the computer
prior to leaving. No odd/even numbered signs out there. Works.

Bob Stevens

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Subject: Re: Roadhaus - MS Streets & Trips / GPS Incompatibility - Update
> Hold the presses .... I may have got it.
> Just uninstalled:
> MS Streets
> Delorme Street Atlas
> Delorme UPS GPS Receiver
>  and reinstalled:
> MS Streets
> Delorme UPS GPS Receiver ... selected "Third Party Software (did that
> before too)
> Did not reinstall ... Delorme Street Atlas
> Seems to be working.
> Will check it out more thoroughly tomorrow.
> Larry Chase
> ---------------------------------- Clip
> -----------------------------------
> I've got to hand it to you Larry you've applied a whole new area to
> camping.
> My younger Brother is a Scoutmaster and I'm going to be sure and ask him
> if there is a Merit Badge for Technical Apparatus Support.
> If you'll please write up the basic requirements I'll see if the Boy
> Scouts of America might bring it into the Merit Badge Program.
> Heaven forbid if anybody ever forgets that Odd Numbered roads and
> highways for all intents and purposes go North and South and Even
> numbered highways and roads go East and West.
> "Will check it out more thoroughly tomorrow." ................. Batteries
> running down Larry?
> While in Canada and you find Highways with numbers like International
> Highway 105 1/2 that GPS will really be worth its volts.
>
> Stan Wilder