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Tree cover is a special challenge to outdoor GPS use. Water in the trees absorbs GPS signals, making navigation difficult or impossible. A better "12-channel parallel" GPS receiver, and/or an external "amplified" antenna can vastly improve reception under tree cover, but you'll still lose coverage occasionally.

High end GPS devices can handle a lot more than navigation. Multimedia players are a nice addition as long as they're easy to use and there's ample additional storage for your songs, videos and pictures. Remember: your multimedia files share space with your maps and navigation tools. Also check to see whether you can play your music and navigate simultaneously�some devices only allow one or the other at a time. And make sure your music's file format is compatible too. The best players will let you create playlists: Thunder Road, anyone? An integrated Bluetooth speakerphone interface is convenient for making hands-free calls�even directly from the POI database. (Great for booking a hotel or making a restaurant reservation.) The GPS model to beat is Garmin's n�vi line; the n�vi 680 includes bright 4.3-inch screen, Bluetooth capabilities, an MP3 player, and the ultrasensitive SiRF Star III GPS receiver.
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Many GPS receivers can automatically keep "track" of the path you travel. This can be useful if you need to backtrack, and most tracking receivers can also send the track data to a computer - either for storage, or to plot on a gpsMap.

The type of GPS receiver you get can have a great impact on the quality of the position and tracking data you collect. A multi-channel "parallel" receiver, which can listen to many satellites at once, will be quicker and more accurate than a single-channel "multiplexing" receiver listening to one satellite at a time.
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Write Here, Write Now: And you thought you were overloaded with information now, just wait. Hewlett Packard is working on a technology to let folks print messages in mid-air based on their location incorporating GPS technology. I find this stuff fascinating, even if no one seems to have thought of a good use for it yet. The first sentence of the article is right, though: "The kids are going to love this." in New Scientist via RCPL's Liblog]

When the ALA summer conference was in San Francisco in 1997, the SF Museum of Modern Art had a fascinating exhibit called Icons: Magnets of Meaning. I spent hours browsing through it, but one of the pieces that has always stuck in my mind was called @: Marking the Electrosphere . It talked about the meaning of that one little symbol. How it can define, place, and root you in the world, but at the same time let you be found anywhere. Integrated, widespread use of GPS is going to take this to a whole new level.