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