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Garmin launch full OS maps for UK

by Andy Betts, posted Friday 31 July 2009

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Garmin have unveiled a new series of the award winning Garmin GB Discoverer topographic maps.

These revolutionary new maps bring outdoor enthusiasts the opportunity to view a wider variety of highly detailed mapping from the Ordnance Survey Landranger map series, whilst navigating …

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Review: Tracklogs

by Andy Betts, posted Thursday 04 June 2009

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Tracklogs, now in Version 3, has been around since the early days of digital mapping applications although it’s never been as well known as Memory Map or Anquet.

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

by Andy Betts, posted Friday 17 April 2009

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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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