singhals wrote: > I know some of you are using GPS units to locate graves, cemeteries, old > homesteads, and the like. > > I'd like one to use for exactly those purposes. > > Which models in which brands will allow me to retrieve lat/lon a week > after I mark the spot? Not all of 'em do, apparently. > > > > Cheryl Thanks, all. I have an unmarked, tiny, family cemetery, the location of which is currently known to fewer than a dozen living beings. I want to get the lat/lon on record somewhere in my data so that 50 or 60 years from now after my cousin and I lose touch my side of the family can find it again. We were talking at a party t'other night and turns out none of us have a GPS unit that will allow us to RETRIEVE the lat/lon afterward. All will show us the point we marked, all will provide driving directions, all _record_ the lat/lon for internal use, but NONE would let us see it a 2nd time. Cheryl

singhals wrote: > > I have an unmarked, tiny, family cemetery, the location of which is > currently known to fewer than a dozen living beings. I want to get the > lat/lon on record somewhere in my data so that 50 or 60 years from now > after my cousin and I lose touch my side of the family can find it again. > > We were talking at a party t'other night and turns out none of us have a > GPS unit that will allow us to RETRIEVE the lat/lon afterward. All will > show us the point we marked, all will provide driving directions, all > _record_ the lat/lon for internal use, but NONE would let us see it a > 2nd time. > Why not just mark the location on Google Earth and print out the map? Or for that matter mark it on a local topographical map?