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Posted by RicodJour on October 3, 2007, 10:59 am
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> >> > My phone is a XV6700 which runs Windows Mobile 5/6. It basically like
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> >> > mini laptop, in which I can install programs and do all sorts of cool
> >> > stuff.
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> >> When is a phone not a phone? When it has an operating system.
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> >> > A friend of mine bought a Bluetooth GPS transmitter and some Tom Tom
> >> > software and it works on his treo just like any other GPS unit. Worked
> >> > very well, and they usually have a "pedestrian" mode that you use while
> >> > walking or hiking as opposed to driving.
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> >> > Basically you buy one of these:
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> >> >http://www.buygpsnow.com/bluetooth-gps_9.aspx
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> >> > (preferably a sirf III version as it has better accuracy than older
> >> > chipsets)
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> >> Those are CHEAP!
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> >> > Then install one of these on your phone:
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> >> >http://www.buygpsnow.com/gps-software_12.aspx
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> >> Add that in to the above and you're getting close to the cost of a
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> >> GPS unit...of course you need another pocket on your vest for it....mind
> >> you...you've got the separate reciever thingey.
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> > Yes, but if you lose/break one component you still have the other.
> > Spreading out the risk.
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> True, but without GPS ability. You can still call for a cab-you just can't
> tell them where you are ; )
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> > I think I missed something about this mining project, MB. Is work
> > that tough that now you're designing HOLES in the ground in the
> > hinterlands? ;) What's the deal?
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> In the immediate, short term, I'm 'fault tracing', which will include
> removing some overburden, and tooling around by boat and on foot for a few
> days... Half giant connect-the-dots game, only the dot's aren't numbered
> (that's where the GPS comes in), and half eyes-on-the-ground running around.
> I'm putting together a 3D picture of the structural deformation to inform
> later work, leading eventually to more drilling. I'm trying to jack up our
> drilling odds. Drilling costs $50/ft.
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> This area's had 2.7 *billion* years for the structures to have fractured
> many different ways. Even the fractures are fractured. Nothing except the
> largest structures have clean signatures. The good news is that the smaller
> ones carry gold.
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> Several *major* ice sheets have left their mark, obscuring the original
> tectonic fracturing with later fractures from their massive weight, but
> you're in MN, right? *I'm* telling *you* about glaciation...
Ummm, Long Island, NY. So this is a prospecting thing you're doing?
Is this speculative or do you have a sucke...errr...client paying for
your work?
R
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