Account Options

  1. Sign in
The old Google Groups will be going away soon, but your browser is incompatible with the new version.
Google Groups Home
« Groups Home
rec.boats.electronics
+ new post
About this group
Subscribe to this group
This is a Usenet group - learn more
Message from discussion Help create better charts
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Followup To:
Add Cc | Add Followup-to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers you hear
 
John Navas  
View profile  
 More options Jun 25 2010, 11:10 am
Newsgroups: rec.boats.electronics, uk.rec.sailing, rec.boats.cruising, sci.geo.satellite-nav, alt.sailing.asa
From: John Navas <jn...@navasgroup.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:10:27 -0700
Local: Fri, Jun 25 2010 11:10 am
Subject: Re: Help create better charts
Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:38:28 -0400, in
<4c24a34c$0$65857$892e0...@auth.newsreader.octanews.com>, "Wilbur

Hubbard" <wilburhubb...@thefarm.invallid> wrote:
>"Tim Thornton" <t...@smartcomsoftware.com> wrote in message
>news:2fd4e52f-3edd-4c3d-805d-e27e4da1c23b@c33g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>> TeamSurv is a project to help create better charts of coastal waters,
>> by getting sailors to log GPS and depth data - see www.teamsurv.eu for
>> more information. For example, in Britain the UKHO states that only
>> 50% of Britain's coastal waters are adequately surveyed, and they
>> concentrate on areas used by commercial shipping. Join TeamSurv and
>> help update the charts and fill in the gaps.
>>...

>What an IGNORANT idea. What you're trying to do is make a Wikipedia Charts
>system. In other words, something any inept fool can contribute to and make
>the entire effort something that can't be relied upon.

>Bad idea - an example of stupid liberal thinking. Sailing by a committee of
>amateurs and wannabes!

AMEN!

--
Best regards,
John

"There are three kinds of men.
The one that learns by reading.
The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
-Will Rogers


 
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.
Create a group - Google Groups - Google Home - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy
©2013 Google