>I'm in the market for a basic handheld GPS system for recording
>longitude, latitude and altitude of collecting localities.  Which
>units are people using for the purpose? Which do they recommend?


You're probably better off setting it to the world grid and
forgetting the stupid lat-long thing. In effect the grid is a decimal
(metric) replacement for lat-long.
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
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