metes and bounds to gps coordinates?

Going to be tough...GPS units use geographics like lat/long, which are absolute values. What you're reading are USPLS (public land survey) township & range readings, which are relative (eg, "Lot 50" covers a broad range of lat/long values).

If the lot is local, try your library, city hall or county government for plat maps. If no luck there, you may need to purchase maps from the USGS.

Calm down. There is no trespassing taking place, it has nothing to do with ACORN, and this is nothing new. (Perhaps looking for other information than the dozens of sites that are publishing the exact same wording from only one article.) The census collects lots of geographical data to help the United States Postal Service, and publishes the aggregated information for free or inexpensively for the public to use for geocoding. They've been doing this and publishing the data for years, just in a lower-tech way. Now they're getting precise latitude/longitude information using GPS. The census is doing the public a favor. The USPS will be able to plan expansion better, web-based mapping services like Google Maps will have an easier time, and businesses will be able to figure out where the population growth is happening and plan accordingly. All sorts of entities need to figure out where your house is, from the police to the post office to Domino's to your visitors trying to get good directions from their Garmin device. This project helps everyone.

Check a county map in the tax collectors office, find the street where the lot is and then set your point of reference witht he GPS.

you cant. youll have to get a plat from local gov. then go to location and mark as waypoint or whatever