RE: [Aroid-l] Exact locations of plants

From: "Steve Hatfield" sehatfield at insightbb.com> on 2006.09.26 at 21:33:24(14659) Its called geocaching and it is a blast Ive found many unusual plants (to me at least) while looking for a Tupperware container in the woods. Im sure some researcher out there somewhere has to be using a gps to keep track of a stand of some rare plant and if there not they should be!! They can help you get back to the car too!! See geocaching.com You can get a low end gps for as little as $87.00 Amazon.com or ebay has many. Steve +More -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Brian Williams Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:04 AM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: [Aroid-l] Exact locations of plants I thought many of the botanist and others might be interested in this. I am not sure if this is something already in use? I have not seen anything on it personally being used in plant research. A few friends of mine play a game over the internet. It is basically a scavenger hunt using global positioning systems. This handheld device can get a person with in feet to were the treasure is hidden. I was fairly amazed by this and was wondering if anyone was recording plant positioning when collecting? The devices usually run from 150.00 dollars and up. My friends use fairly cheep ones and they tend to work well. Another thing they use is a very interesting map called google Earth. This is a map made up of satellite photos of the earth you can put in your Global positioning systems cordenance and it will show you a picture of the area with in a few feet in some cases you can see the cars and people in the photos. I would think both of these could be extremely useful to someone collecting plants and it would be interesting to add in the cordenance of a plant and get a image of exactly were it grows. So is anyone using this in the field? Here are some links to google earth and GPS devices. http://earth.google.com/ http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/common/search/search-results1.jsp;jsession id/4YDDWTDD0HCCWQNWSCCNIK0BW0KIWE?QueryText=gps&NH87&Ntk=Products&Ntx=mo de+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=gps&noImage=0&rid 80101070502&cmCat=perf&cm_ven=perf ormics&cm_cat=yahoo_nonbrand&cm_pla=boat_fishfindersgps&cm_ite=gps%20devices &OVMTC=standard&OVKEY=gps%20device&OVRAW=gps%20devices&_requestidd29 _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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