Discussion: Real orienteers don't use GPS ;-)
in: Orienteering; Gear & Toys
May 22, 2009 5:05 AM
#
Why? Geocaching is nothing you couldn't do with a really good sextant. And then they could call themselves sexcachers, and inject a bit of racy excitement into the community.
May 22, 2009 5:36 AM
#
I'm not sure the geocaching community is one that would be quite as accepting of racy excitement as orienteers are, though... =/
May 22, 2009 6:03 AM
#
Orienteers are accepting of racy excitement in Seattle? Or is it one of those sliding scales where O'ers are at 1.2, and geosexcachers are at 0.001? :)
May 22, 2009 7:21 AM
#
GuyO, from the link you posted, I noticed that one of the idiot driver stories (about GPS leading people into trouble) had a picture that I think is in the University of Washington Arboretum: http://www.switched.com/gallery/gps-victims/202335... It's just a couple of miles from my house, and I used to run there a couple times per week when we had the UW orienteering club running group.
May 22, 2009 8:57 PM
#
That definitely happened in Seattle, as it was about a year ago.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/20...
It annoys me that the first link uses the following caption to link to that photo (and others):
Gallery: Faulty GPS Led These Poor Folks to Disaster
No, it wasn't a faulty GPS. It was a faulty driver following a GPS.
(Incidentally, that wasn't the only headline-grabbing, children-endangering bus crash in Seattle in 2008. Here's the other: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/392969_bus20.html)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/20...
It annoys me that the first link uses the following caption to link to that photo (and others):
Gallery: Faulty GPS Led These Poor Folks to Disaster
No, it wasn't a faulty GPS. It was a faulty driver following a GPS.
(Incidentally, that wasn't the only headline-grabbing, children-endangering bus crash in Seattle in 2008. Here's the other: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/392969_bus20.html)
This discussion thread is closed.