GPS Navigation Books

Do you get lost or have trouble getting accurate directions? Use GPS navigation books to familiarize yourself with the full potential of your GPS reciever.

Outdoor Navigation With GPS: Hiking, Geocaching, Canoeing, Kayaking, Fishing, Outdoor Photography, Backpacking, Mountain Biking (Paperback)

"Stephen W. Hinch is a breath of fresh air...[this book] is expert advice from a very experienced teacher." -- Fred Zahradnik, About.com GPS, February 2008

Whether you're hiking, fishing, kayaking, cross-country skiing, or taking a mountain bike ride in the backcountry, a GPS receiver can help you reach your destination and return safely--but only if you know how to use it!

Outdoor Navigation with GPS, the most complete, easy-to-use GPS book available, is your guide to getting the most out of a receiver, from basic consumer advice to advanced techniques.

Starting with essential definitions such as UTM coordinate systems, position formats, and map datums, and moving on to creating "waypoints," and using your GPS with a computer, long-time GPS instructor Stephen W. Hinch breaks down the jargon and teaches you what you really need to know.

Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & Gps (Mountaineers Outdoor Basics) (Paperback)

Proceed with confidence when heading off-road or off-trail with the second edition of Wilderness Navigation.

Whether you are climbing a glacier, orienteering in the backcountry, or on an easy day hike, Mike and Bob Burns cover all the latest technology and time-tested methods to help you learn to navigate - from how to read a map to compasses and geomagnetism.

Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age (Paperback)

Covers all modern methods of celestial navigation including H.O. 229 and 249, direct calculations using calculators and 72 different exercises in five categories of interest.

GPS For Dummies (Paperback)

Need directions? Are you good at getting lost?

Then GPS is just the technology you’ve dreamed of, and GPS For Dummies is what you need to help you make the most of it.

If you have a GPS unit or plan to buy one, GPS For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you compare GPS technologies, units, and uses.

You’ll find out how to create and use digital maps and learn about waypoints, tracks, coordinate systems, and other key point to using GPS technology.

Get more from your GPS device by learning to use Web-hosted mapping services and even how to turn your cell phone or PDA into a GPS receiver.

GPS for Land Surveyors, Third Edition (Hardcover)

Since the last edition of this international bestseller, GPS has grown to become part of a larger international context, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).

Both GPS and GNSS technologies are becoming ever more important in the everyday practice of survey and mappers.

With GPS for Land Surveyors, Third Edition, a book written by a land surveyor, for land surveyors, you can stay in the know on the latest GPS techniques, technologies, codes, and signals

Fun with GPS (Paperback)

For the millions of GPS owners who love their GPS units but don't know all they can do with them, this fun guide shows that a GPS can do a lot more than just calculate a location.

He talks about fun and cool things you can do with a GPS transponder.

Dozens of illustrated examples show how a GPS can be attached to a multitude of devices, including dogsleds, race cars, hot-air balloons, windsurfers, pet animals, ski racers, hockey players, and sailboats.

Each example includes maps and photographs to inspire hobbyists, airline passengers, athletes, animal lovers, drivers, teachers, and students to track and map their activities.

How to incorporate GPS mapping technology in the classroom in order to reinforce science, math, and geography curricula, provide the groundwork for project-based learning, and show students that their schoolwork is important and relevant is discussed.

GPS Made Easy (GPS Made Easy: Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors) (Paperback)

"GPS Made Easy by Lawrence Letham was the book most recommended on GPS information, and the book used [most often] by people who guide for a living, [who] teach outdoor survival training, and [those who] run guide training schools."

"That we - the collective outdoorsman we - are confused by our GPS devices is why this explanatory instruction guide just went into its fifth printing. Anything that can make GPS easy will be snapped up, and this is a book that stakes its cover reputation on delivering simplicity and usability." --The Reel News

Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications, Second Edition (Hardcover)

This thoroughly updated second edition of an Artech House bestseller brings together a team of leading experts who provide a current and comprehensive treatment of the Global Positioning System (GPS).

The book covers all the latest advances in technology, applications, and systems.

The second edition includes new chapters that explore the integration of GPS with vehicles and cellular telephones, new classes of satellite broadcast signals, the emerging GALILEO system, and new developments in the GPS marketplace.

This single-source reference provides a quick overview of GPS essentials, an in-depth examination of advanced technical topics, and a review of emerging trends in the GPS industry.

Engineers can use this book to build GPS receivers and integrate them into navigational and communications equipment.

Executives can turn to this book to determine how technology is affecting markets and how best to invest their companies’ resources.

The book also serves as a handy resource for electrical engineering students looking to advance their studies and careers in GPS.

The GPS Handbook, Revised and Updated Edition: A Guide for the Outdoors

Updated with information on the latest models of GPS and new technology such as sophisticated downloadable maps, this new edition provides all the information needed to work any GPS unit in the outdoors.

Rockhounding the Wiley's Well District of California: The GPS User's Guide (Paperback)

The Wiley's Well Rockhounding District, occupying the northeastern part of the Colorado Desert in southern California, contains a number of well known rock-collecting locations.

Without any doubt the most famous is the Hauser Geode Beds. Some, like the Potato Patch, which is known for its thundereggs, or the Opal Hill Mine, which produces outstanding fire agate, are almost equally notable.

Other sites in the Wiley's Well District may not be as well known, but can be just as productive.

Until the advent of the Global Positioning System and hand-held readers, getting to the collecting sites had always been a problem. Few were on main roads, and most back roads in the desert were unmarked two-track affairs that did not show on most maps. Moreover, because no one lived in the area, there generally was no one to provide directions.

Delmer G. Ross, a history professor at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, now offers GPS users a solution to that annoying difficulty.

He not only pinpoints the collecting sites, but he does the same for every significant junction on the way to them. No maps are needed. One can find his or her way with ease and much greater accuracy than that offered by any map.

In addition to offering information on how to reach collecting locations and explaining what can be unearthed, probably because of his own interest in history, Ross also provides historical information on most areas. Knowing what has gone on before can enhance the pleasure of collecting.

Based on a well received series of articles on rock collecting in the Wiley's Well District, this book can guide rockhounds to more than two dozen different collecting sites.

Because it will add to their success and enjoyment, for rockhounds planning to visit any of the collecting sites of the District, this book is an absolute must!

Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice (Paperback)

Although developed as a classroom text, the book is also useful as a reference source for professional surveyors and other GPS users.

Because it covers both GPS fundamentals and leading edge developments, thus giving it a wide appeal that will clearliy satisfy a broad range of GPS-philes.

Clearly presents the critical aspects and issues for users, along with the theory and details needed by students and developers alike.

For those seriously entering the rapidly changing GPS field, this book is a good place to start.

GPS WORLD September "This is the fourth edition of the book, and the authors are to be congratulated on their efforts."

This book has now gained wide acceptance as a a serious book on GPS Navigation.

From reviews of the 4th edition: "The growing society of GPS users and designers could be very grateful for the efforts of both the authors and the publisher resulting in the fourth, revised edition of this splendid reference book within six years ." -- Acta Geodaetica, Geophysica et Montanistica Hungarica

For techie's wanting to dig into theory.

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