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Which GPS map orientation do you primarily use?
North Up
46%
 46%  [ 55 ]
Heading Up
53%
 53%  [ 64 ]
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JamesTXSD



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am with Mike on Levity: North up in familiar water, heading up in new areas (so I can orient the landmarks ahead). Not having had an integrated chartplotter/radar, wouldn't that be best to keep heading up?

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

heading up for Sundog!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used North up the first couple years, and always thought it was dorky cruising on the Columbia River with Washington on the wrong side of the boat. Nevertheless, I continued North up because Les said he was taught that and I figured he was taught by Dusty and I ain't gonna argue with Dusty. Well, one day I was cruising around Dusty's north forty in unfamiliar waters and I tried what Garmin calls Course Up. It seemed a lot more intuitive to me, so I stuck with it. It really makes sense in the river. Just don't tell Dusty. I still set the units to Knots when I go up there, just in case he checks.

I think this is a doozy idea for a Poll, too. Let's get one of the Modulators to set it up - maybe even Dusty!

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:56 pm    Post subject: GPS Orientation Reply with quote

Heading Up. I also use Heading Up when Geocaching on land with a GPS. I like being able to see which way to turn, unencumbered by the thought process.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heading up for me, as soon as I figure out how to set it up!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heading up. I want to know right now if there is a rock in my path, and I don't want to sort out the boat's heading relative to the GPS's heading and then triangulate to see if I'll hit it. This seems like a no brainer to me.

In contrast, when planning out a route for the next day while anchored, I use charts in the "north up" orientation so I can read the gol-darn names and legends!!!

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heading up for me. I tried North up once but when I was headed South I had to turn the GPS up side down to get it to look right.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heading up. It's far more intuitive than North up. Keeping the 21st century GPS set the same way as was as paper maps have been drawn since the first century doesn't make sense to me....(Ptolemy established this trend of N up). I say, take advantage of the technology to it's fullest. With the map oriented heading up, it's very easy to look out the window and spot landmarks, buoys etc. as their position relative to the boat is displayed as in real-life on the screen. N-up is tradition but not necessarily the best...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heading up for me too. Of course being a girl I will be turning the map upside down anyway.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flip wrote:
Of course being a girl I will be turning the map upside down anyway.


Yeah, but at least you will ask for directions if needed!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Al - I wonder if where one was raised influences that decision. Here in the big sky country of Montana, North is a very important direction, particularly when those cold Canadian fronts begin to slide down the Rocky mountain front. But with the the GPS and the bread crumb trail to follow back, who cares where North is. I'm not, however, comfortable driving, flying or boating without knowing which direction I am heading. Force of habit, I guess. What drives me to distraction are those backwards compass cards. Even if I am in a strange city sitting in a hotel room, I look out the window and attempt to establish direction. Some people organize spacial relationships differently in their brains. Recall being on a troop transport to Korea in 1953 and 3,000 miles from the nearest land. Had to get on deck to look at either the sun or the stars whenever I could. North was obviously a pretty important direction to that captain.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Give me a chart and I want it NORTH UP! (Janet is always turning the charts every which way!) But I like heading up on the GPS. I tried both, and surprised myself by liking heading up better. I still want my flat paper map NORTH UP! So, smack me UP SIDE THE HEAD!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

North up...with a heading line going to the edge of the screen.

The biggest benefit to me of north up - identifying the relative location of objects. This is far more difficult (for me) when using heading up.

With north up, at a glance, you can immediately communicate to somebody the following:

- Where you are, relative to objects on your chart plotter or RADAR. "I'm approximately 2 miles southwest of buoy X."

- Where objects on your chartplotter/RADAR are, realtive to you. "X Island is approximately 3 miles northwest."

- Where objects are on your chartplotter/RADAR, relative to each other. For example, helping somebody out in the fog for whom you can only see a RADAR blip: "Hey buddy - the rocks are about 1/2 mile to your west - head northeast."

With north up, and the heading line extending to the edge of the screen, I find it simple to adjust course based on chartplotter/RADAR objects - you just turn the wheel, and the heading line rotates in the same direction.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

North up. I like your explanation Bill, I too always like to know the direction N-E-S-W of objects around me, helps communications with others (sometimes that is...cause a LOT of people could care less about map directions!). Just ask someone over the phone that has worked at a business for a long time which corner they're on, Northwest, Northeast, etc, most times won't know -- only that it's across the street from the Shell station!!!

Just natural for me I guess to orient by map directions.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Steve
Have you noticed when receiving road directions some are right, left, right and left, left. ( ok I am lost) and others like my self would say north, east then west on bla bla and south into the lot. I wonder if this is the same for gps heading up are the right left people and north up are the north south east west people? hm? Rolling Eyes

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