<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Scott and other GPS users,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Any recommendations on acquiring the GPS points?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Examples:: Triangulate the feature? Take a meter tape to measure the offsets and a compass to measure the offset azimuths (record the magnetic and declination corrected azimuths used in calculating the final UTM positions)? Record the epe at the time of taking the data (est. prob. err.)? average the readings 100 times (see epe). And take a pic of the feature to eliminate that small possible error?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Any interest in including a few data points along the trails to back country basins?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">jere bush</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=TSBryan@aol.com href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com"></A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=geysers@wwc.edu href="mailto:geysers@wwc.edu">geysers@wwc.edu</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 08/16/05 5:12:10 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Geysers] GPS coordinates</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>It has been suggested in the past that I include GPS coordinates (as Universal Transverse Mercator, not as Degrees Minutes Seconds) for pertinent backcountry locations when preparing the 4th Edition of my book. I _might_ do so (or not !), and so I have started recording UTM positions. Should any of you already have such positions, I would keep them on file for potential use.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As a couple of examples of what I'm after:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Shoshone Geyser Basin, Trailside Geyser, Minute Man Geyser, Union Geyser, Bead Geyser.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Heart Lake Geyser Basin, Glade, Ivory, Rustic</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Gibbon Geyser Basin, Bulls Eye Spring, Bat Pool, Phoenix Geyser</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Crater Hills Geyser</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cold Water Geyser near Mud Volcano</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You get the idea. I see no point to such coordinates in the major frontcountry basins.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>