RE: gps AND maps

To:	"'David Geering'" <>
Subject:	RE: gps AND maps
From:	"Conole, Lawrie" <>
Date:	Mon, 11 May 1998 09:39:01 +1000

> The
> reading given by the GPS invariably had us some distance from the road
> where the reading was taken.
> 
Surely this is just the disparity between AMG/UTM already discussed (and
can be corrected for!).

> We also had problems with tree cover, often
> having to move several hundred metres to get a gap in the trees in
> order to
> get a reading in the first place.
> 
The 12 channel units rarely suffer much from this problem.



Lawrie Conole
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