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To: Bigg Red
good idea to start talking about map datums

HOWEVER, if you have a map and a GPS, you better know something about map datums else your GPS is little better than a brick to hold your map in place. Ostensibly even the USAF learned that lesson in Serbia, depending who you ask.

Bad JDAMs!

801 posted on 09/07/2018 7:00:25 AM PDT by xone
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To: xone

What’s a map? Really poor spatial sense, and when I look at a map I have a terrible time because there is just too much going on because I live on the East Coast where there are lots and lots of roads. It’s visual overload for me, and I can’t focus. I am a woman who formerly spent many hours of her adult life getting lost. I love my GPS!

Fortunately, I have a husband who is very good with maps. Before GPS, I would sometimes need to call him — from a pay phone — and he would get me going the right way.

Sorry for sliding the thread.


833 posted on 09/07/2018 8:49:45 AM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: xone

That was an accident? Right through the window?


1,908 posted on 09/09/2018 6:48:05 AM PDT by zek157
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