Originally Posted By: Teslinhiker
Ponder: Many SAR teams use the degrees and decimal minutes. Comparing this to Google maps is not a good comparison so to speak.


Are you saying GOOGLE MAPS is not relavent?

If your communication involves

Transmitting what you see on the screen using voice -
Interpreting voice and typing the location -
Sending emails of the location -
Receiving emails of the location –
Pasting into a mapping program

Then your process has some life threatening holes in it.

Cut and past your location into

http://mapper.acme.com

N 43 deg 57.980 min W 116 deg 11.362 min

It doesn't work. Time wasted. Life threatening error.

Cut and past your location into Garmins Mapsource.
It doesn't work. Time wasted. Life threatening error.


Edited by ponder (08/04/12 03:24 PM)
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