Ordnance Survey 2019
Improve your walking safety and make more of your time outdoors with this concise guidebook for walkers, full of step-by-step guides with clear illustrations. Navigation Skills for Walkers will help you grow your skills in map reading, using a compass and using a GPS device or app. It focuses on using Ordnance Survey mapping, but most of the skills and techniques can be used for any map.
Key features include:
Build your confidence in reading maps, including using grid references, reading contour lines and identifying path types.
How to use a compass: taking a bearing, magnetic variation
Making the most of a GPS device, including geocaching.
An introduction to digital mapping using OS Maps for web or mobile device
