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Subject: Re: [APG] GPS locations
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:56:53 EST
In a message dated 11/7/2005 10:33:18 PM Central Standard Time,
writes:
guess because I was reading it originally as to the tombstone I didn’t
think about the gateway. The improved way does clear it up to the
tombstone.
Not to be picky but since we are on it. While giving a cemetery located
in a city might be okay without an address, what about an address or
cross road for the county cemetery? It would be easier to direct
someone there with traditional directions and then get the specific
grave location with the GPS readings. Not everyone knows how to blind
find a spot with a GPS location without getting in the ball park first
(at least USGS maps have both UTM and L-L on them if you have the
quadrangle -- plus they usually show all cemeteries even if not in
public access).
Ernie
Ernie,
I found the cemeteries, the majority of them rural, with traditional
directions. I think it would be a bad idea to put the directions in the middle of
biographical material or in footnotes. Maybe in an appendix, but you know the
old saying, you can lead a horse to water.... At some point the reader of the
genealogy has to make an effort if s/he really wants to see the old homestead
or cemetery.
My bet is that GPS devices will be more common than computers are now
within the next twenty years. We won't recognize them as the same piece of
equipment, of course. Our cell phones will be able to give us the same information
as my current GPS device. The quality of the photos the same phone takes will
be so much better that I won't need to take my camera either.
Now, if only high tech could solve the problem of world hunger.
Rondina
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