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Subject:Re: GPS recommendations, handheld & incar?
From:Mike
Date:Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:49:41 -0400

Ah yes, isn't GPS a real kick in the teeth?
  I've had some 'experiences' of my own, but not on that scale!

Mike B.

> Several years ago when a coworker and I were doing field work in
> Wyoming using a DeLorme GPS/laptop/Street Atlas setup to find our way
> through the wilds we followed a mapped road across the back of a large
> strip mine operation to the point the only way out was through the
> front gate or turn around and go back the way we came.  On another day
> on the same job we found a mapped road that ended at the top of a 70
> foot bluff but the map showed the road continuing several more miles.
>
> Chuck
> '85 Wolfsburg Westy - 'Roland the Road Buffalo'