{"id":341,"date":"2006-03-06T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T12:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=341"},"modified":"2006-03-06T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T12:39:13","slug":"an-intro-to-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/03\/06\/an-intro-to-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"An intro to GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2006\/03\/05\/hiking_by_satellite\/ \">This Boston Globe story has a nice introduction to GPS for hikers. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A map and compass may be so yesterday, but Ouellette and O&#8217;Bannon advise hikers never to rely exclusively on their GPS units. For starters, human error can be a factor in basic navigation. And, just like a cellphone, a GPS unit may fail to get the best signals, or malfunction, or run out of juice.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe two recommend that hikers use common sense and have a general knowledge of a region&#8217;s terrain. Their advice includes telling people of trip plans, wearing appropriate footwear and clothing, carrying basic supplies and water, and packing a map.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHolding up her own sleek GPS unit during the GPS 101 class, O&#8217;Bannon cautioned: &#8221;These turn into colorful plastic rocks if you run out of batteries.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I confess to occasional bouts of GPS lust but I never end up buying one &#8212; that way I&#8217;ll always have something on my &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna get one of them someday&#8221; list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Boston Globe story has a nice introduction to GPS for hikers. A map and compass may be so yesterday, but Ouellette and O&#8217;Bannon advise hikers never to rely exclusively on their GPS units. For starters, human error can be&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/03\/06\/an-intro-to-gps\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}