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Yes typos and all!  In fact just yesterday this iPhone GPS got me in
trouble (ok it was operator error). I typed in an address for the
visual arts college in St Paul mn. It seems there is a divider for
this street (E/W)... So my wife and I walked the 1.3 miles to find no
college. I figured out the mistake and we walked the 1.4 miles to the
proper place, 0.6 miles from our original locaction. My wife has been
quite generous telling all about my navigation prowess!

Thomas A. Sult, MD
Sent from iPhone

On Nov 1, 2009, at 0:05, frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.com wrote:

>
> Thomas, you wrote:
> "They ia now a term "yuppie rescue". GPS, GPS tracking device, sat
> phones etc are giving people without the requisit experiance the
> boldness to try. "
>
> Yes, it's a strange irony. We work to make navigation simpler, but
> then it becomes so simple that any fool can do it. It's interesting
> to note that this also applied to navigation historically. I was
> listening to a museum interpreter recently describing the chip log.
> This, of course, is a simple bit of technology, perfected only in
> the 18th century, that lets us measure our vessel's speed
> scientifically and thus improves the DR. The interpreter, who had
> done a small boat circum-navigation, commented that anyone with
> significant sailing experience soon reaches the point where they can
> estimate speed easily and accurately without resort to hardware so
> the chip log seems superfluous. But that's not the point. The chip
> log could be used properly and yield accurate results even in the
> hands of novice seamen once they had been taught. The tools of
> scientific navigation exist to make us all experts without requiring
> expertise.
>
> And I can't help getting a little laugh from the auto-signature
> appended by your iPhone. That little thing is sending your email AND
> tracking your position better than any of us could ever have hoped
> for twenty years ago.
>
> -FER
>
>
>
> >

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