Advanced GPS & Mapping Techniques

One Day Course:
£59 per person per day.

This is a day devoted to helping you to understand, use and explore the full potential of the latest colour Garmin GPS receivers loaded with Topo mapping. During the course you will gain an excellent practical insight into the powerful benefits that this versatile hardware/ software combination offers, both in town and country as a handheld and as a sat.-nav. in the car. In addition, you will able to extend your knowledge of working with handheld GPS in the outdoors and see for yourself how Google Earth can be used with your GPS.

Is this course right for you?

As the course is for advanced users, you will need to be comfortable with normal day-to-day GPS usage in the outdoors including uploading/ downloading digital map data using Memory-Map or a similar product. You will probably have attended our Going Further with GPS & Digital Maps although this is not essential

What will I learn?

By the end of the day you should be able to:

    • •set up and use the advanced features of your GPS
    • •appreciate what Garmin Topo can offer a GPS user whether on foot in the outdoors or in a strange city or as a sat nav in your car or on your bike.
    • •use Google Earth at a basic level and appreciate how it can be used with a GPS

What's in the course?

Advanced GPS Navigation
Capturing waypoints direct from a mapping GPS screen
Using symbols to organise and manipulate your data both in your GPS and in Memory-Map
Pages and page sequencing - the highway, turn preview and area calculation pages
Fine tuning the map page and track function
Track vs route as a navigation guide
Calibrating the compass and altimeter and understanding the options for viewing pressure changes.
Sharing experiences on GPS problems and use.
Navigation exercises

Garmin Topo
What is it?
Difference between Topo & Digital Mapping
Different Topo Views
Working with Waypoints and Routes
Uploading/ Downloading Data
Creating and Navigating Turn-by Turn Routes
Routing set-up
Essential technical tips for Topo users
Practical Topo exercises

Google Earth
What is it and what does it do
Different options available
Using Google Earth with a GPS
Practical Google Earth Exercises