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Love it!  I will have to start traveling with my sextant as well.  I
thinking it is a conversation starter!
Thomas A. Sult, MD
IntegraCare Clinic
www.icareclinics.com
tsult@mac.com




On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:10 PM, frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.com wrote:

>
> Thomas, you wrote:
> "In fact just yesterday this iPhone GPS got me in trouble (ok it was
> operator error). [...] My wife has been quite generous telling all
> about my navigation prowess!"
>
> Ha. Yeah, I've had a few of those, too. I don't much need my GPS-
> enabled phone for position-finding, per se, it's all the data that I
> can access through Google Maps and other services that makes it so
> liberating. The underlying data is comprehensive but also has a fair
> amount of "noise". On a recent cross-country trip visiting submarine
> museums, I happily drove up to a brand new H.I. Express motel
> following the instructions from my smartphone. And when I pulled up,
> oh yes indeed, it was new --so new that the windows hadn't been
> installed yet. :-) So that's when I cursed GPS navigation and dug
> out my sextant (not really, of course, but I do indeed usually have
> not just one but two sextants in the trunk of my car when I drive
> around, for teaching and photo-ops, not for navigation).
>
> I recently visited the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford,
> CT to peruse a whaling logbook from the mid-1840s with some
> interesting "lunars" navigation in it. It wasn't really hard getting
> there, but I am quite sure that I would have made some wrong turns,
> wasted a lot of time, and perhaps I would even have gotten so
> frustrated as to abandon the plan, but the smartphone took me right
> there. So navigation by artificial satellites enhances research in
> natural satellite navigation.
>
> -FER
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