Old GPS units – where could they go

In the course of a lengthy conversation with a high school teacher mate about GIS, GPS and geography (yep, we both need to get a life and discuss apps) my colleague mentioned the difficulty of teaching the subject given the paucity of equipment in his school. We both realised this issue would be sorted as soon as that nice Mr Pine brought in a more equitable funding system but in the interim I thought about the old GPS units that many of us drop in a drawer when the new one comes along. The idea we struck on was appealing to people who use such devices to donate their old one to a south western Sydney High School to teach young people the joys of transects, point counts and to become obsessed with Eastings and Northings (or is the other way round?). So if any of you have an old Etrex or similar that is waiting for a new home let me know off-line (Pezoporus@bigpond.com Pezoporus@bigpond.com> ) and well see if the good folk from birding-aus can be the effective sponsors of some Jonahs and Jai’me (yep it’s that sort of centre of learning excellence) coming to grips with navigation, satellites and maybe their application to our flora and fauna. Chris Lloyd =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================