- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Mountaineers Books; 4 Revised edition (November 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0898868238
- ISBN-13: 978-0898868234
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.1 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 299 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,093,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
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By Sasha LeGendre (Prescott, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: GPS Made Easy : Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors (Paperback)
The book as such is well written explaining how GPS in general works......however for the beginner it doesnt tell how to accomplish what you want to accomplish....if GPS is confusing to someone who hasnt used it before this book will not clear it up for you.....a beginner needs more in detail of what to do.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Buy the book then the GPS,
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This review is from: GPS Made Easy : Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors (Paperback)
This book will not only help you figure out how to use the features of your GPS receiver but it will help you figure out what features will be important to you in a GPS receiver so you don't buy the wrong unit. All of the features of the various major consumer grade GPS receivers are explained in one chapter. Subsequent chapters illustrate how many of those features could be used in various outdoor activities. There are sections on how to get coordinates out of your receiver and onto a map or off of the map and into the receiver.I was a little annoyed by being told repeatedly to go back to previous chapters to read something explained there when a short reminder could have been included on the spot. And none of the figures are numbered so you have to figure out which figure is being referred to. A reference section list some vendors of receivers and ancilary items along with their phone mumber but there are no Web pages listed and sometimes a product name and number are listed without the manufacturer's name. Letham tells you that antenna sensativity is important bud doesn't go on to explain what the values are or mean and whether high or low values are better when comparing units. In spite of these annoyances this is a useful book which could keep you from making a costly mistake if you read it before you buy your receiver. And the practical examples will help you understand what techniques might work in your application.
4.0 out of 5 stars
GPS Made Easy,
By Barney P. Popkin (Vallejo, California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: GPS Made Easy : Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors (Paperback)
GPS Made Easy is a compelling, exciting and informative read for professional resource and infrastructure mappers, monitors and managers, as well as for lay readers. After her insightful and helpful book on Virtual Reality, Larijani again engages us with an accurate, clear, timely guide to a high-tech topic. She takes us on a delightful historical and practical journey, using everyday words and amusing sketches, and covers the practical applications in spades. She answers the questions (1) What is GPS? (2) How does it work? (3) What can it do? (4) What can't it yet do? And (5) What's being done to turn (4) into (3)? Once opened, it's a hard book to close until finished!
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