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Best Setup for Mapping in Undeveloped Countries?
Floodimus asks: "My girlfriend lives and works in West Africa and on my next visit she has asked me to help her do some mapping of uncharted villages. I want to make this study really accurate and useful, so I am thinking about using high tech and low tech resources such as GPS and good old fashioned compasses, but I was wondering what the Slashdot crowd would recommend for GPS hardware (does GPS equipment from the US work over there?), field equipment, mapping software etc. I use both PCs and Macs and would like the software to run on the Mac, but it doesn't have to. What's the best, most rugged stuff you've used? Where are some resources that would help me out?"
In Soviet Russia, GPS ban you!
But in all seriousness, despite the wonderful opportunity for lampooning, the parent poster makes a great point. Always check with the authorities first. As much as we like to complain about the state of our legislation, it actually is far worse in many other places.
Wow, that website might be the most hideously unreadable piece of garbage I've seen all year. Whos brilliant idea was it to put the text in columns but then arrange it in rows across multiple columns? Forcing the reader to read a paragraph in column one and then search column 2 for a paragraph that sounds like it might be a continuation of the last one you read. It's like they wrote a useful article then put all the paragraphs in a random placement generator which spewed them out onto the page in absolutely no order whatsoever...
So, how is it, occupying a sovereign nation and killing people for fun?
I hope you get killed. Or better yet lose your arms, so you can spend the rest of your life thinking about what an asshole you are.