Sign Up Bathroom Cleaning Clothing Care Family Floor and Surface Cleaning In the Home Kitchen Cleaning Laundry Out of Home Sustainability Hygiene Home‣Kitchen Cleaning Want to learn how to make cloudy glasses crystal clear again? Our step-by-step guide will have them gleaming in no time. ...
A spinning gyroscope, if supported in a gimbaled frame and spun up, will maintain the direction it is pointing toward even if the frame moves or rotates. In a gyrocompass, this tendency is used to emulate a magnetic compass. At the start of the trip, the axis of the gyrocompass is po...
One mysterious unexplained sound is the Upsweep, a set of narrow-band upsweeping sounds, each lasting several seconds and first detected by scientists in 1991. The Upsweep seems to be seasonal, and usually reaches its peak in the spring and fall, though no one is sure why. The source lev...
Lindsay McIntosh-Tolle is a former outdoor instructor at REI. She has taught classes in backpacking, map and compass navigation, how to use a GPS and others. She has been finding her way into spectacular backcountry destinations for more than 18 years. ...
Extended lines that mark the constant magnetic declination away from the agonic line are called isogonic lines [source: USGS]. In the early 18th century, Edmund Halley noticed that the agonic line was slowly moving westward. He came up with the idea of showing declination as contour lines on...
DEMs (digital elevation models) can be retrieved fromUnited States Geological Survey (USGS)’sEarthExplorerwebsite after a free sign up. DEMs can also be derived by combining tools from Google Earth Pro and GPS visualizer’s website. To do this: ...
USGS Topo The USGS Topo layer includes the official topo maps from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). As another detailed topographical map layer, it can be used in conjunction with the Gaia Topo layer to compare trails and points of interest. ...
America’s most special places will always be beautiful, but a warming climate forces us to accept that they can’t be frozen in time.
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126.Toyota Vehicle Crowd Sourcing– Piecing together hyper-precise and up-to-date maps using the Toyota vehicle’s GPS and camera. 127.In-Vehicle Usage– Monitoring driving habits like speed, sudden acceleration, and pushing hard on the brakes for insurance underwriting. ...