This is an easy-to-read and comprehensive guide for users of GPS receivers and digital mapping. GPS navigation and digital mapping is the new 'map and compass'.

This practical guide holds the hand of the user, while they learn how to use this new technology. The tips, tasks and 'check your learning' boxes are designed to make this process as easy as possible - even fun. The chapters include: Using your GPS Abroad; Making Your GPS Fun with information about geocaching and geotrailing; a Shopper's Checklist; and Glossary. The main body of the book addresses GPS receivers, digital mapping, how the two work together and introduces the main players. Unique Garmin and Magellan-based screen-grabs illustrate how to use a receiver - from setting defaults to creating waypoints and planning routes.

Technology issues are explained using easy-to-understand language. Tips, tasks and 'check your learning' sections are designed to encourage practical use.

To the north lies the Cheviot massif, a landscape for exhilarating walks, open grasslands and deep valleys radiating from high rounded hills. The middle section of the Park includes the heather moors of Harbottle and Simonside, and the Rede and North Tyne Valleys, infamous for centuries as the refuge of moss-troopers and Reivers. To the west is the Border Forest Park, and to the south lie waves of moorgrass prairie and the Whin Sill, along which runs Hadrian's Wall, one of the most important archaeological features in Europe.

Altogether, the National Park covers an area of nearly four hundred square miles; most of it empty space, as close to the elements and to nature as you can get in an overstressed country at the start of the twenty-first century. Tony Hopkins' selection of photographs is based on twenty-five years experience of walking the hills, of being out in all weathers, and talking to shepherds and gamekeepers as well as archaeologists and ecologists.

This 94 mile walk is divided into six ‘day stages’ and passes 48 Northumbrian pubs along the way.

Complete with a foreword by Steve Cram.

Detailed maps, route descriptions and snippets of information to guide you through the dramatic and beautiful Lakeland landscape, passing no less than 44 traditional English pubs.

. An overview of Digital Mapping Software

. How to get started and licence you new software

. Tips & Information on Updating your software; Managing your files; Commands; Icons; Properties & Operations; Saving your work; Housekeeping; Show and Hide; Export All/Export Visible; Find

. Guidance on how to work with Waypoints, Routes, and Tracks in MM

. How to Download trails from the Internet; Share your routes and tracks; Printing your work; Print routes and tracks (long distance routes); Connecting your GPS to your computer; Serial & USB ports.

. Information on how to use Memory-Map Mobile; New mobile developments; Installing Memory-Map Mobile; Map calibration; Memory-Map abroad; Third party maps; 3D view; 3D Fly Through; Updates and technical support; Keeping up-to-date; FAQs

The guide provides -

. usefull information on setting up and using a Garmin GPS in the UK.

. advice and tips to help you get up and running with your Garmin GPS.

. step-by-step guidance on basic GPS tasks.

. guidance on how digital mapping makes a GPs easier to use.

. answers the 10 most FAQ.

. an outline of the main Garmin accessories designed to protect and enhance your GPS.

. information on where to get additional help.

The photographs tell the stories about peoples lives: the way jobs are done and hardships of farming and rural industries.

This 18-page booklet is written by Shepherds Walks and comes with a map, detailed instructions, local history and information about stopping points along the route.