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Doug,
May be you already know the following forum
http://www.network54.com/Forum/3897/ If not, it's a place where you might
receive advice in case you should have questions related to future hikes.
Marcel
On 4/4/06, Royer, Doug <> wrote:
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> I sent this yesterday while the list was "broken". Don't see it in the
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> Thank you Marcel and George for your excellent, informative replies to my
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> If I was to travel to Britain or any of the continental countries I would
> be honored to share a pint or a glass of refreshment with any of you. Alas,
> it's nothing like that.
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> It was only an inquiry.
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> Since I do quite a bit of long cross country hikes and use excellent
> projections here in the States I was just curious as to what people in
> Europe use while doing the same thing.
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> Over here we have a choice as to the format of the projections. Most use
> WGS84 datums but a few still use WGS27 datums. I especially like to use the
> large scale U.S.G.S. projections in the UTM (Universal Transverse
> Mercator) coordinate format and the smaller scale projections from the
> U.S.D.M.S. in the MGRS (Military Grid Reference System) coordinate format.
> Using these 2 coordinate systems allows a person to more accurately pin
> point one's position (a meter or less on a 1:24000 projection) than using
> the Lat/Lon coordinates.
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> Yes George, what you're explaining is the Grid North. Not the same as true
> north or magnetic north. When a person corrects or uncorrects a bearing
> using a grid system one must also compensate for that offset along with the
> declination (variation) offset.
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