Backpacker magazine's Using a GPS: Digital Trip Planning, Recording, And Sharing (Backpacker Magazine Series) - Softcover

Backpacker's Using a GPS: Digital Trip Planning, Recording, and Sharing is a complete guide to the digital mapping revolution including how to do it and how to join it. Plan your trip, record it with GPS, edit and enhance your maps (photos and videos), and share with the world. Include out-in-the-field instructions for using a GPS; how GPS works; basic field techniques; computer-based mapping with GPS; conventional navigation skills, etc. This handy pocket-sized guide is 96 pages, includes two popouts, and incorporates color photos, charts, and illustrations as needed throughout the interior.

Backpacker magazine’s Using a GPS brings you essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of outdoor-related information. Learn how to use a GPS to plan and record your trip, and how to edit and enhance your maps and share them with world. Get a handle on a range of other essentials, from basic field techniques and how a GPS works to computer-based mapping with GPS, as well as conventional navigation skills. Perfect for pack or pocket, this book breaks down its subject into the essential topics, providing practical and portable information useful in the field. Full-color photos and illustrations complement concise, clear text, introducing you to the basic and intermediate skills
needed to safely and successfully get by in the outdoors. Also available: Backpacker magazine’s
Campsite Cooking
Outdoor Survival
Predicting Weather
Trailside Navigation|Backpacker magazine’s Using a GPS brings you essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of outdoor-related information. Learn how to use a GPS to plan and record your trip, and how to edit and enhance your maps and share them with world. Get a handle on a range of other essentials, from basic field techniques and how a GPS works to computer-based mapping with GPS, as well as conventional navigation skills.Perfect for pack or pocket, this book breaks down its subject into the essential topics, providing practical and portable information useful in the field. Full-color photos and illustrations complement concise, clear text, introducing you to the basic and intermediate skills
needed to safely and successfully get by in the outdoors.Also available: Backpacker magazine’s
Campsite Cooking
Outdoor Survival
Predicting Weather
Trailside Navigation