Improve your walking safety & make more of your time outdoors with this concise guidebook for walkers, full of step-by-step guides with clear illustrations. Navigation Skills for Walkers will help you grow your skills in map reading, using a compass & using a GPS device or app. It focuses on using Ordnance Survey mapping, but most of the skills & techniques can be used for any map. Key features include: Build your confidence in reading maps, including using grid references, reading contour lines & identifying path types. How to use a compass: taking a bearing, magnetic variation & ‘aiming off’. Making the most of a GPS device, including geocaching. An introduction to digital mapping using OS Maps for web or mobile device