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Off the beaten track: A beginner’s guide to outdoors GPS

by Andy Betts, posted Friday 17 April 2009

For thousands of years maps have been the best, and only, method of finding your way from place to place. In the UK we’ve been lucky to have probably the best mapping in the world, and the whole country is covered in maps at scales appropriate to a variety of uses. A road atlas could help you out on roads, but once you set foot off the highway you needed to learn the essentials of how to use a map and compass to determine your position.

The road atlas is rapidly becoming obsolete as sat nav takes over the task of navigation in-car, with voice direction, live monitoring and auto updating maps, but once you start off-road the world of GPS changes.

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Review: Magellan Triton 300

by Andy Betts, posted Sunday 22 February 2009

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The 300 is the entry-level model in Magellan’s Triton range of rugged handheld GPS devices. Compact and tough, it provides a basic system for offroad navigation.

The build quality is robust, arguably too much so. The main navigation buttons beneath the screen are well protected but also …