1. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS MAPS & GPS

2. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS Maps Maps are a copy of a given terrain in a fixed scale –1:250 000 1:100 000 1:50 000 Given symbols represent objects on ground Grid lines shows landscape ascending / descending –Contour interval

3. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS Maps Standard colors –Red = Roads Green = Vegetation –Black = Symbols Brown = Contour 3 ways to the North –Magnetic, True, Grid

4. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS Reading a Map Try always to know where you are, the location of where you are going and how to get there. From where you are. Pay attention to details like river crossing, bridges, hills, road bends, etc that you have to pass. Remember the quickest way is not always in a straight line.

5. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS Giving and receiving positions Clear text –I am in Kuala Lumpur.. –I am 500 meters east of Jalan Ampang, by the bridge. –N 32h 16’ 26” E 5h 12’ 34”

6. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS Longitude and Latitude

7. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS GPS Global Positioning System

8. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS GPS – How does it work? Picks up signals from orbiting navigations satellites and calculates position. More satellites, the faster and more accurate lock. Tells your location according to your decision of “Datum”

9. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS Where am I….

10. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS Where to go…. When planning our trip –Same datum on GPS and Map –Plot “Waypoint (s)” –Put waypoints together in a “Route” Remembering places –“Mark” –Adjust waypoint with logical name

11. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS How to go… Direct line Always remembering the waypoint Does not se obstacles Track and Direction….

12. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS How am I doing….

13. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS In Traffic

14. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS When you arrive… So you know

15. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS ”The trail was so hard….”

16. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS Lost your keys? Back-tracker….

17. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS MERCY GPS’s Garmin Etrex Venture Garmin Etrex

18. Anders Laukvik - 2007 Maps & GPS What is on the market….