- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Creative Publishing international (July 1 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1589231457
- ISBN-13: 978-1589231450
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.9 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #599,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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No matter what you're doing in the outdoors, you may need help navigating from place to place-and remembering how to get back. A compass and a map are excellent tools, and knowing how to use them will make it even easier to learn how to use your Global Positioning System unit.
The author has been involved with teaching people how to use GPS for many years. In this book he shares the answers to all the questions a novice might ask: What is GPS? How does it work? How accurate is it? Does it work anywhere? Is it for traveling on land as well as on the water? and more.
Topics include: straight-line navigation, getting around obstacles, uploading maps and databases, entering waypoints, recording a breadcrumb trail, how to choose a GPS model and caring for your GPS.
The step-by-step instructions are accompanied by illustrations and photographs. Actual GPS screens are shown as the user sees them on his or her unit while navigating.
In addition to a glossary of GPS terms and definitions, this book has a list of popular manufacturers, a list of software sources and an Index.
About the Author
Steve Featherstone has been writing about GPS technology since 1996, and has worked in the industry with a leading manufacturer. He holds a Master's degree and has won many writing awards for his short stories, essays and articles that regularly appear in prestigious magazines such as Outdoor Life, Popular Science and Saturday Night, among others. His travel stories are often broadcast on National Public Radio. Steve lives in upstate New York.
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Best of the "basic handbooks", Sep 12 2005
By A. Waite - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Outdoor Guide to Using Your GPS (Paperback)
After reviewing several of the "basic handbook" type books on using a GPS unit (a handheld in particular) I like this one the best. There are some simple exercises you can do that help make practical sense of what you "knew" but weren't applying clearly in practice. It has the least "technical" descriptions without abandoning the reality of having to learn some technical things like how to read a map
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