PFG Navigation Skills for Walkers

Make your walking adventures safer and more enjoyable with this concise, step-by-step guide to navigation skills for confident countryside walks. Learn how to plan, follow and share walks with OS Maps; build confidence with reading maps; discover how to use a compass and how to make the most of your GPS device.

Featured navigation skills include:

- Map-reading: Using grid references, interpreting contours and visualizing terrain
- Map and compass navigation: Taking a bearing, magnetic variation and ‘aiming off’
- GPS: Understanding the information provided by your GPS device, learning the limits of GPS, and geocaching
- Digital mapping: How to create, follow and review walks with OS Maps
- Handy hints, troubleshooting guides and fully illustrated techniques

Navigation Skills for Walkers (Pathfinder Guides):

- A perfect companion to the definitive pocket book guide to Great Britain’s great outdoors
- In-depth guidance on map reading and comprehension, compass navigation, GPS and digital mapping
- Walkers can learn to navigate themselves in safety by multiple methods and enhance their understanding of the landscape through which they travel
- Step-by-step instructions with full illustrations for each navigational technique
- An all-in-one guide for walkers to develop a complementary skill set
- Beautifully illustrated, including reproductions of Ordnance Survey Explorer and Landranger maps