FWIW.

I sent the following suggestion for their consideration:

<snip>

I have been mulling this over for a time and I haven’t found one on the
market.

I would love to have an instrument that tells me exactly where I am on a
map.

I carry a GPS and sort of work out where I am.

The instrument that I envisage would have a little wheel that moves over the
map and records the GPS positions on the map similar to a cursor on Google
Earth.

One would have to key in the map scale and border co-ordinates of the map.
Starting in one corner the unit would be dragged across the map until it
matched the GPS waypoint giving the exact location.

I can see military precision applications for this also.

There would have to be a menu of units to cater for the map being used
similar to what is in a GPS, such as UTM/UPS Map Datum WGS 84 and HD M’S.S”.

The display would be digital and powered by a button style battery.



This is the challenge.



I was not aware that there would be a prize. That came out of the blue. Very
nice though.



Cheers

Ralph



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From: aushiker@... [mailto:aushiker@...] On
Behalf Of Andrew Priest
Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2008 12:39 PM
To: aushiker@...
Subject: [Aushiker] Re: Sea to Summit Alphaset Cutlery



Congratulations to Ralph. Care to share you suggestions Ralph?

Andrew

2008/9/3 <list@seatosummit. <mailto:list%40seatosummit.com.au> com.au>

>
> Our last email asked for new product ideas for 2009 & we were very pleased
> with the response, thank you for sending them in. The best two suggestions
> were from Hayden Rowley (VIC) & Ralph Ditton (WA). As a small gesture we
> have sent Hayden & Ralph some new product to test in the field including
our
> Brand New Sea to Summit ALPHA SET cutlery and some Backpackers Pantry
> organic Tofu & Pesto and Chana Masala meals.
>

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