{"id":1690,"date":"2010-05-24T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:52:48","slug":"a-gps-for-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"A GPS for Genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that i&#8217;ve found very useful about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_Positioning_System\">GPS<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nokia_N900\">Nokia N900<\/a> is that when the wife and I are out investigating the back-and-beyonds the N900 is suppyling us with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Townland\">townlands<\/a> as we traverse. In genealogy often the only locational information you can find are townlands, and many modern maps do not label them. Now I don&#8217;t know if othe GPS&#8217;s have this data, but it&#8217;s nice to have them in the pocket, in the form of the N900.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screenshot-20100524-161925.png\" alt=\"Screenshot-20100524-161925\" title=\"Screenshot-20100524-161925\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screenshot-20100524-161925.png 800w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screenshot-20100524-161925-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center> <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that i&#8217;ve found very useful about the GPS in the Nokia N900 is that when the wife and I are out investigating the back-and-beyonds the N900 is suppyling us with townlands as we traverse. In genealogy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1690\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A GPS for Genealogy<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,296,340,281,80],"tags":[392,390,711,690],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-ireland","category-maemo","category-meego","category-n900","category-nokia","tag-genealogy","tag-gps","tag-n900","tag-nokia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}