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Subject: [pct-l] gps / gis for pct path?
From: andrew at aushiker.com (Andrew Priest)
Date: Tue Dec 30 05:08:11 2003
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>I fail to see how a GIS database would help a PCT hiker. About the only 
>location references that a hiker has available are GPS data, and his map 
>and compass. Since the GPS data won't match the map, it seems to me that 
>the only meaningful data would be the line on the map, and possibly road 
>crossings.
>
>Am I missing something here?

I wonder too, yet we have some folks here into GIS data and they seem to be 
really keen on its application to bushwalking (hiking). Beats me but what 
its application is.

Andrew

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