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Hand Held GPS Unites: Which One to buy?

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Hand Held GPS Unites: Which One to buy?

Posted by James Whitaker on Mar 7, 2011 5:42 pm

I have staked a bunch of 20+ acre sites in the middle of no where.  I neeed a hand held gps unit that I can download my cad drg or an arcview into a sd card to relocate this corners for the client.  I do not want to set up my survey gps to do this. 

My question is: what hand held unit (mid price range $150+) will do this?  I know I can manually load my geo-coords and use a goto, but it would be nice to have a sketch in an sd card were all is needed is to place the cursor over the point and get a course from  it.

Any suggestions!

Have a nice day

PS: spell checker did not work....
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Re: Hand Held GPS Unites: Which One to buy?

Posted by GJH on May 31, 2011 3:49 pm

The Garmin 60CSX is a nice little unit, WAAS and even works quite well under canopy.  I was able to get within 20' of some transect points set by a client a year earlier with a handheld way up in the boonies on the CT River near Canada.  You can even run topo maps on them.  I picked mine up used for $150, a great buy.

You can download and import to Google Earth to use as a reference background, or 3rd party freeware will allow you to output GLX file. Garmin also makes topo maps you can plot on, but they are proprietary.

I think Garmins' newer line is the Colorodo series?  Might also try the Delorme unit, but they are exspensive.

I use it for recon all the time on jobs I am setting up for the crew and then creat a base map  for them to use during the field work.
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