Improve your walking safety and 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 and using a GPS device or app. It focuses on using Ordnance Survey mapping, but most of the skills and techniques can be used for any map.

• Information to build your confidence in reading maps, including using grid references, reading contour lines and identifying path types.
• How to use a compass: taking a bearing, magnetic variation
• Learn how to make the most of a GPS device, including geocaching.
• An introduction to digital mapping using OS Maps for web or mobile device