Garmin Forerunner 201 Personal Trainer??

[Bearhair]

The specs mention the ability to retrace your steps or mark a location and navigate to it. Can this
device help my mom find her way back to the car in the parking lot of a large shopping mall?
Seriously.

[Donovan Rebbech]

In article <11972720.0312100431.561e3ae9@posting.google.com>, Bearhair wrote:
> The specs mention the ability to retrace your steps or mark a location and navigate to it. Can
> this device help my mom find her way back to the car in the parking lot of a large shopping mall?
> Seriously.

Any GPS unit should be able to help your mom do this. You might be better off with a different unit,
take a look at Garmin's website.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

[Dot]

Bearhair wrote:
> The specs mention the ability to retrace your steps or mark a location and navigate to it. Can
> this device help my mom find her way back to the car in the parking lot of a large shopping mall?
> Seriously.

Most GPS's will do this, maybe. If she needs to have it indicate exact car, it might not be
adequate, esp. if solar storms or something weird. BUT if she just needs a general region, like
within half a dozen cars, then it should work most of the time.

FWIW, I've used GPS receivers with field crews where we used them to help negotiate our way back
(retracing same route) to camp around floating bogs (vegetative mat on top of water, that may or
may not support a person), beaver ponds, swamps, etc. It definitely required remembering land
marks as to the precise location where we crossed streams, etc., but the GPS helped reinforce the
general area where we needed to be. At one point we had 5 people, 2 GPS units and were discussing
(rather heatedly, I might add) which way we had come - since by that time of day all our brains
were fried, my Garmin 12XL was easy to read with fried brain, and the other GPS was comparatively
difficult to use.

Other days I've been able to pin point patches of vegetation a few meters across.

Dot

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