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Private Eye magazine has an advert for a "Personal Weather Forecaster", basically a mini weather station measuring things like winds speed, rainfall, etc. It claims to offer "all the weather data you'll ever need."

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I've been thinking of getting something like this, though more in terms of something linked to the computer network in the school, but I thought I noticed something missing. So I looked at the specification carefully then phoned up and asked about wind direction. A long awkward silence ensued. I somehow doubt they'll be selling many to weather forecasters. Or yachtsmen. Or golfers. Or...

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[captboulanger.livejournal.com]

I was wondering... do you know anything about handheld GPS receivers? I was considering having a hiker using one in my original fic, but don't know in what format they display fractional degrees of latitude and longitude... (minutes and seconds or decimal?)... or for that matter east and west/north and south (labeled or positive/negative?)

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

If you go to Google's image search and type in "GPS", you can get shots of various models in action. There's a closeup of one's screen at this location.