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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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satellite status page, proprietary maps, naming waypoints, proprietary mapping software, waterproof ratings, plotter page, easting value, quad map, compass page, highway page, track log, orienting arrow, fishing maps, azimuth ring, satellite geometry, map datums, zone meridian, jetting water, raster map, breadcrumb trail, patch antennas, trout pool, setup menu, satellite signals, sea charts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Technological innovation is a double-edged sword. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
satellite status page, proprietary maps, naming waypoints, proprietary mapping software, waterproof ratings, plotter page, easting value, quad map, compass page, highway page, track log, orienting arrow, fishing maps, azimuth ring, satellite geometry, map datums, zone meridian, jetting water, raster map, breadcrumb trail, patch antennas, trout pool, setup menu, satellite signals, sea charts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Prime Meridian, United States, Global Positioning System, Selective Availability, Coast Guard, Cold Brook, Lawrence River, Universal Transverse Mercator New!
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