GPS Systems

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Tri-County
Snowmobile Club
P.O. Box 20039
#15 - 5201 – 50^th Street
Leduc, Alberta
T9E 6T4
info@tri-county.ab.ca
www.tri-county.ab.ca

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Contact Brian Beebe
780-437-4706
brianbeebe@shaw.ca

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GPS Systems	GPS Manufacturers	GPS Software Programs
Stores carrying GPS's, Maps & Books	Recommended Books	Helpful Internet Sites

GPS Systems:

What is a Global Positioning System and how does it work.

The Aerospace Corporation	What is a Global Positioning System and how does it work.
Garmin GPS Systems	Manufacturer of GPS hand held systems
Lowrance GPS Systems	Manufacturer of GPS hand held systems
Magellan GPS Systems	Manufacturer of GPS hand held systems

Oziexplorer Map Software	Software for moving map GPS's
Fugawi Map Software	Software for moving map GPS's

GPS Central	Calgary based On-Line GPS store, great site.
Map Town	(Calgary) - GPS systems with down loadable Alberta maps, GPS software, large paper map, books, etc.
Prairie Geomatics Ltd.	Manitoba - GPS systems, Software, Accessories, Maps, Books and consultations.
Back Road Map Books	B.C. & Alberta maps
Map Connections	(Calgary) GPS software, large paper map, books, etc.
Federal Publications	Complete line of GPS software, maps, charts, books of Alberta and Canada

Book Name / Description	Author	Publisher / Year
GPS Made Easy, 3rd ed. - Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors.	Lawrence Letham	Rocky Mountain Books, 2002
Staying Found: The complete map & compass Handbook 2nd ed.	June Fleming	The Mountaineers, 1994
The Basic Essentials of Maps and Compass, 2nd ed.	Cliff Jacobson	ICS Books, 1997
Be Expert with Map and Compass: The complete Orienteering Handbook	Bjorn Kjellstrom	MacMillan General Reference, 1994
Outward Bound Map (Using and Understanding Maps)	Scott E. Morris	Chelsea House Publishers, 1993
The Map Catalog: Every Kind of Map and Chart on the Earth and Even Some Above It, 3rd ed.	Joel Makower	Vintage Books, 1992
Map Use: Reading Analysis and Interpretation	PhillipC. Muehrcke	JP Publications, 1986
Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice, 2nd ed.	B. Hofmann-Wellenhof	Springer-Verlag, 1997
The Navstar Global Positioning System	Tom Logsdon	Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995
GPS Land Navigation: A Complete Guidebook for Backcountry Users of the NAVSTAR Satellite System	Michael Ferguson, Randy Kalisek, Leah Tucker	Glassford Publishing, 1997
Using GPS: GPS Simplified for Outdoor Adventures	Bruce Grubbs	Falcon Publishing Company, 1999
Wilderness Navigation : Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter, & GPS.	Bob Burns, Mike Burns, Paul Hughe	Mountaineers Books, 1999

GPS Made Easy 3rd Ed. By Lawrence Letham	GPS Made Easy - Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors, GPS Navigation, GPS Theory of Operation, Features of hand-held GPS Receivers Map use with a GPS Receiver, How to use a GPS Receiver in layman terms
#1 Site - WAYPOINT	The International GPS Global Positioning System Waypoint Registry TM. Building a World Wide Database of GPS coordinates. Our Mission is to have a web site where people can exchange information about their travels.
A Practical Guide To GPS-UTM by Don Bartlett	Don has posted his book on this website for you to read, explaining the uses of GPS Systems.
MapRef by Stefan A. Voser	The Collection of Map Projections and Reference Systems for Europe.
The Global Positioning System Overview, part of The Geographer's Craft Project	written by Peter H. Dana, Has been selected as one of GIS World's eight "Best of the Net" sites for 1996. The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, The University of Colorado at Boulder.