GPS - A practical guide

This practical guidebook explains how to get the best out of navigating with your GPS, and takes you through GPS navigation in a clear and structured way. It summarises how to navigate with a map and compass. The guide also looks at digital mapping, and how GPSs and mapping software can be used positively together.

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)