GPS - A practical guide

• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Reviews
• Further Reading

The aim of this new mini-guide is simply to show you how to get the best out of your GPS without becoming over-reliant on it for navigation. As well as going through the basics, this book looks at the way GPS integrates with other technologies, in particular digital mapping software, to enable you to plan a route on screen before downloading it and taking it with you on your walk.

Navigation expert Pete Hawkins breaks down all the technological jargon into plain English. He takes you through basic and advanced GPS navigation in a clear and structured way, with lots of practical exercises to help you test what you’ve learned in the great outdoors. And just in case your GPS should ever let you down, there’s also a potted summary of navigation with a map and compass.

Hawkins has written for a variety of outdoor magazines, worked for the BBC in local radio and leads walking holidays around the world. He is author of Map and Compass and Navigation, also published by Cicerone. 

(Outsider, August/September 2008)

‘Pete Hawkins has written this new Cicerone guide with the aim of showing walkers how they can get the best from their GPS but without becoming totally reliant upon it.

Throughout, much emphasis is placed on how good, effective navigation can only be achieved by using a GPS alongside a map and compass and there are many practical examples of how this should be done.

There is much to commend this new publication to walkers and it should be of particular interest to those who are new to GPS navigation and want to become more proficient in using it as an aid to navigation.’ 

(Strider - LDWA, December 2008)

‘This practical little book, the latest in this pocket series, explains how to get the best out of navigating with your GPS and takes you through GPS navigation in a clear and structured way.

Pete simplifies navigation jargon into understandable language and takes you through the use of GPS as an aid to navigation in a clear and ordered way. He also recognises that strong traditional navigational skills are the basis for effective GPS navigation.’

(AMI magazine, December 2008)