Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS)
Chapter 2 - Why Buy a Receiver?
Chapter 3 - Backing up Your GPS Receiver
Chapter 4 - About GPS Receivers
Chapter 5 - U sing UTM Coordinates on a Hiking Trip
Chapter 6 - More UTM and Collecting Water Samples in the Desert
Chapter 7 - GPS Navigation in a Whiteout
Chapter 8 - Latitude, Longitude and a Kayaking Trip
Chapter 9 - More Latitude, Longitude and a Sailboat Rally
Chapter 10 - Small Scale Maps and a Road Trip
Chapter 11 - Recovering from Disaster
Chapter 12 - GPS Receivers and Personal Computers
Chapter 13 - Another Input Device
Chapter 14 - Other Grids
Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) grid
Used as the grid for the North and South poles
Compared to latitude/longitude for reference
Ordnance Survey Great Britain (OSGB)
Grid use in Great Britain (it is also a datum)
Eastings, northings and coordinates described
Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)
Used by US military
Similarities and differences to UTM contrasted
Manual conversion between UTM and MGRS
explained
Maidenhead and Trimble Grid Locator
The Maidenhead grid is used by amateur radio
operators
Trimble Grid Locator overlays the Maidenhead
grid to increase grid resolution
Thomas Brothers Page and Grid and Trimble Atlas
Page and Grid is the grid system used in all
Thomas Brothers road maps
Trimble atlas is an overlay to increase the
resolution of Page and Grid