Product Description

The exercises in GPS The Easy Way use Ordnance Survey mapping and British National Grid co-ordinates to guide the user through all aspects of using a gps for navigation. Exercises are replicated for the user's own region of UK. This is the 2nd edition of UK's best selling GPS manual. Synopsis The exercises using OS mapping and BNG co-ordinates deals with the GPS navigation for walkers. Exercises are replicated in the user's own region of UK. This is the 2nd edition of UK's best selling GPS manual.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21677 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

From the Publisher
GPS The Easy Way is the only GPS manual that discusses the use
of GPS in UK and Europe, and the only one using Ordnance Survey examples
for the practical exercises. An essential book for anyone thinking of
buying a GPS, or who wants to get the best from their GPS unit.
We are surprised at the Stargazer "sailing geek" review as all examples use
Garmin gps units and this updated 2nd edition includes models such as the
Garmin 60. The discussion on which gps unit to buy guides people new to gps
into choosing a suitable gps unit for their needs.

From the Author
In September 2002 I caught up with a group of Tenerife walkers at Lomo de las Lajas. They were interested in my use of GPS and pointed out an older man who was showing off his new GPS. I asked him how he was getting on with his GPS (a newer model than I was using) and he replied "Oh, I haven't read the manual yet." After explaining how GPS could help him enjoy his walking more he got a bit flustered and said "anyway I know all the routes round here (actually he didn't) and anyway I was 70 last week".

Being confused by a GPS is not unusual. Who do you ask for advice? In shops selling GPS the best advice you normally get is "its all in the manual"; except that the manuals can be as confusing as the instrument itself. I meet lots of walkers who have opinions on GPS, even though they have never used one, and lots who have bought one but couldn't work out a use for this new gizmo.
GPS The Easy Way is written for people thinking of buying a GPS and for people who have a GPS but have been confused by the manual; which are all yachting biased with reference to "man overboard" and "go to" functions.

If you already have a GPS plus download lead and software such as Oziexplorer, GPSU or Fugawi, the this book is not for you because you are already up to GPS Advanced Use. But if you are looking for independent advice on how GPS could benefit your own UK land navigation then GPS The Easy Way at less than £5 is a wise investment that could save you from making a costly and time consuming mistake in what you purchase.

About the Author
David Brawn is the co-author of several Walk! guide books to European destinations, and is surveyor/designer for the Tour & Trail Map series of topographic maps.

Customer Reviews

The fast way to get walking with GPS in the UK
The manual that comes with your GPS device tells you how it works, but this book tells you what to do if you are a walker. You can read the book in one evening, then go back to it and do the practical exercises outdoors near your home. You will learn that many of the functions of your GPS are next to useless for walkers, but you will also learn the vital ones. The author makes it clear that unless you connect your GPS to your PC and use shareware or free programs to input your routes and tracklogs from scanned or downloaded maps, you will be limited in what you can do. The big advantages of this little book are that it is all about walking, not sailing or 4x4 driving in deserts, it is about use with OS maps, and it shifts GPS from a fascinating science to a practical skill. I went from novice to full use of GPS in a few days.

Excellent introduction to GPS for beginners
Like quite a few of my walking friends I had been given a GPS for christmas a couple of years ago. After pressing the buttons and taking it on walks and looking at the squiggly lines on the display I gave up on it; the manual seemed to be all about yachting and man overboard functions, and it was consigned to the junk area of the garage.
Seeing GPS The Easy Way I have dug out the Garmin and put in some new batteries, and followed the advice cum tutorials in the book. I now know what a GPS is for. I programme in Waypoints calculated from OS maps for all the key points on planned walking routes. Tracks of routes I have walked are kept on my PC thanks to some free software, EasyGPS, which can then be downloaded back to my GPS when I want to rewalk the route. The same for Waypoints I record when walking a route. Now my friends come round to have my tracks and waypoints downloaded into their garmins.
GPS The Easy Way has been a revolution for me. I am now debating investing in a shareware program so that I can plot my routes, and see where I have been, on screen - much easier than inputing waypoints by hand. This might not be a book for experts already using GPS but for beginners like me it is a godsend and the best fiver I have spent in recent years, a tiny price for so much enjoyment.

GPS the Easy Way
Thank you David for producing a book which describes how to use a GPS in such clear, precise and easy to follow language that I even considered sending a copy to the person who wrote the Garmin eTrex owners manual to demonstrate the clarity with which such a manual could be written.
I am pleased to say, after owning the GPS for 2 years and using solely to establish my position when out walking, the day after I received my GPS The Easy Way, I qualified as "GPS Accomplished".
Keep up the good work. It's a godsend.