-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Death by GPS Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 17:11:15 -0800 From: Rixanne Wehren <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> Only some GPS units can transmit signals of your location. Many are just receivers that get a GPS satellite signal to you, not the return. Rixanne On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Angie Cope wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Death by GPS > Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 09:25:13 -0500 > From: Stone, Howard <[log in to unmask]> > To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask] > > > > > I thought that a GPS tracks your location (privacy advocates often > complain about this), which would enable rescue and law-enforcement > personnel to find you in an emergency. Am I wrong about this? > > Howard Stone, Brown University > > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Death by GPS >> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:48:35 -0800 >> From: Dyallen2 <[log in to unmask]> >> To: [log in to unmask] >> >> >> >> Here is an interesting tidbit from the copied by the Bureau of Land >> Management in California from the Sacramento Bee: >> lettering "Heat Kills" over a gravestonetwo hikers look over a rocky >> desert landscape*"'Death by GPS' in the desert"*(Sacramento Bee, >> 1/30/11) >> "Danger has long stalked those who venture into California's desert >> in >> the heat of summer." But as more people visit, "technology and >> tragedy >> are mixing in new and unexpected ways." Said Death Valley wilderness >> coordinator Charlie Callagan, "People are renting vehicles with GPS >> and >> they have no idea how it works and they are willing to trust the >> GPS to >> lead them into the middle of nowhere." Stories of deaths in the >> desert >> are "reminders that even with a growing suite of digital devices at >> our >> side, technology cannot guarantee survival i n the wild. Worse, it is >> giving many a false sense of security and luring some into danger and >> death." >> http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html >> >> David Allen >> Encinitas, CA >>