Gps Mapping: Make Your Own Maps - Softcover

Owings, Rich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976092638 ISBN 13: 9780976092636

Publisher: Ten Mile Pr, 2005

Synopsis

This is the only comprehensive guide to mapping software that clearly explains how to interface your GPS receiver with your computer to create maps, annotate aerial photos, and even create 3-D maps. It includes where to find free software and maps, how to use aerial photos and satellite imagery, and how to view your favorite backcountry locations in 3-D.It brings sophisticated features once available only to professional cartographers within reach, at low cost or even free, to everyone who loves maps. Readers will discover how to make maps for free, download aerial photos, create and customize their own maps, use hidden tips and tricks, reduce the learning curve and get mapping right away, locate trailheads using a real-time moving map on a laptop or PDA, and how to best transfer information between a GPS, computer, and electronic maps.

About this title

About the Author

Rich Owings has been an avid outdoorsman for 30 years. An experienced explorer of the wilderness, he resides on California's wild and rugged North Coast. He is Executive Director of theMendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.

From the Inside Flap

If you love the outdoors and have a soft spot for tech toys, you're about to have the time of your life! This book helps you identify which of more than a dozen popular soft ware programs best fit your mapmaking needs, and includes chapters about free software that allow you to download free maps from government web sites.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ten Mile Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976092638
• ISBN 13: 9780976092636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392