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I've been searching for a bit, and I have not found the perfect GPS device that serves both my needs and will easily embed into a walking stick, for example as those tiny compasses will embed in the top of a walking stick.
This wrist watch could simply attache to a stick as if it were your wrist, but then why not just wear it?
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/alt-image.do?pID=107272&img=productImageRFLarge
The various Bushnell Backtrack models could be embedded I think, or at least attached so that they look better (you have to be able to change batteries). However, these are pretty crude GPS devices that show locations only in Degrees-Minutes-Seconds and with limited or no ability to specify your preferred datum.
Garmin's fēnix™ wristwatch is almost $400, so if my CFO (my wife) will ever get me one, I'm sure not going to mangle it to install it on a stick. I'm very disappointed!
Back to the drawing board. This would have resulted in the perfect geologist's Jacobs staff, if I could have had a permanently mounted but inexpensive GPS. I think the old fisherman's Garmin that I purchased 20 years ago cost around $35, and was as precise as any of these newer and fancier models.
Next, I have to figure out how to notch a stick in order to mount an Abney level, and also use some sort of brass tacks or screws to mark feet and tenths of a foot for the first foot, to measure rock outcrops.
Any GPS recommendations? Of course it should be small and preferably inexpensive. I need latitude and longitude in decimal degrees and my prefered datum is NAD27. This is so I can jot down the locations of outcrops in my field book and later enter these into a mapping program back in the office.
This wrist watch could simply attache to a stick as if it were your wrist, but then why not just wear it?
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/alt-image.do?pID=107272&img=productImageRFLarge
The various Bushnell Backtrack models could be embedded I think, or at least attached so that they look better (you have to be able to change batteries). However, these are pretty crude GPS devices that show locations only in Degrees-Minutes-Seconds and with limited or no ability to specify your preferred datum.
Garmin's fēnix™ wristwatch is almost $400, so if my CFO (my wife) will ever get me one, I'm sure not going to mangle it to install it on a stick. I'm very disappointed!
Back to the drawing board. This would have resulted in the perfect geologist's Jacobs staff, if I could have had a permanently mounted but inexpensive GPS. I think the old fisherman's Garmin that I purchased 20 years ago cost around $35, and was as precise as any of these newer and fancier models.
Next, I have to figure out how to notch a stick in order to mount an Abney level, and also use some sort of brass tacks or screws to mark feet and tenths of a foot for the first foot, to measure rock outcrops.
Any GPS recommendations? Of course it should be small and preferably inexpensive. I need latitude and longitude in decimal degrees and my prefered datum is NAD27. This is so I can jot down the locations of outcrops in my field book and later enter these into a mapping program back in the office.