Minrelica
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So I've been thinking for a quite some time now about gridding off a park (on paper) with the help of a handheld GPS unit and Google Earth. Has anyone done this?
I'm trying to hunt a huge park but not really overlap where I'm hunting. I'd also like to grid off some smaller parks as well. For a while I was using tent stakes and pacing out a section to hunt, writing down what exactly I did, then coming home and blocking out that space on my Google map that I saved... It works in a roundabout way but I want something easier, cleaner.. more professional.
If any of you are familiar with the "Map My Ride" phone app, I thought some along those lines would be helpful as well... You start the app at the beginning of the hunt and when you're done and view the results it would show the field/park you were hunting with basically a line that followed you wherever you went. My girlfriend mentioned a cardio app along the same lines as the Map My Ride one but I don't think that either would be accurate enough and you'd end up with just a small blob on the screen.
Does anyone do this and if so, can you recommend a good yet inexpensive handheld GPS unit? I know the name Garmin comes up quite often but there's so many, I have no clue what I'm looking at or what a good price on a used one would be.
Thanks!
I'm trying to hunt a huge park but not really overlap where I'm hunting. I'd also like to grid off some smaller parks as well. For a while I was using tent stakes and pacing out a section to hunt, writing down what exactly I did, then coming home and blocking out that space on my Google map that I saved... It works in a roundabout way but I want something easier, cleaner.. more professional.
If any of you are familiar with the "Map My Ride" phone app, I thought some along those lines would be helpful as well... You start the app at the beginning of the hunt and when you're done and view the results it would show the field/park you were hunting with basically a line that followed you wherever you went. My girlfriend mentioned a cardio app along the same lines as the Map My Ride one but I don't think that either would be accurate enough and you'd end up with just a small blob on the screen.
Does anyone do this and if so, can you recommend a good yet inexpensive handheld GPS unit? I know the name Garmin comes up quite often but there's so many, I have no clue what I'm looking at or what a good price on a used one would be.
Thanks!
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