Anders Laukvik Maps & GPS MAPS & GPS

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

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

Anders Laukvik 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.

Anders Laukvik 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”

Anders Laukvik Maps & GPS Longitude and Latitude

Anders Laukvik Maps & GPS GPS Global Positioning System

Anders Laukvik 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”

Anders Laukvik Maps & GPS Where am I….

Anders Laukvik 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

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

Anders Laukvik Maps & GPS How am I doing….

Anders Laukvik Maps & GPS In Traffic

Anders Laukvik Maps & GPS When you arrive… So you know

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

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

Anders Laukvik Maps & GPS MERCY GPS’s Garmin Etrex Venture Garmin Etrex

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