[OSM-newbies] Electricity Pylons

[Nick Austin]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Slightly off-topic but what process do you use for working with
> coordinates and associated compass bearings? Is there some tool that
> makes it easier or are you doing it the hard way?

I'm probably doing it the hard way, but I do very few of these so it's
not worth the time trying to find a proper method.  It works for me.

The GPS I use always puts North at the top.  I rotate the GPS so that
the track it's recording points back along the road or path that I'm
on.  The GPS itself is now pointing North. I now place a notepad next
to the GPS pointing in the same direction and draw a line parallel the
to bearing I want to measure.

Back at home I hold the notepad vertically next to the screen and try
to make sure that the line I draw is parallel to the line in the
notepad.

Nick.