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Skills guide: Modernise your mountain navigation

Are you still taking those frayed old OS maps out on the hill? Ever find yourself not quite lost, but momentarily misplaced and wishing you had some way of pinpointing your exact location? It could be time to bring your nav skills into the 21st century. This skills guide was

Skills guide: Modernise your mountain navigation
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ViewRanger is becoming a social network

On Friday, the ViewRanger team published a new blog post called Introducing the ViewRanger Activity Feed. The best digital nav tool for hiking and hillwalking is becoming a social network. Here’s why I think this is a bad idea. What makes ViewRanger great ViewRanger is a precision tool for

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How to turn an Android phone into a dedicated GPS device

Please note: this article was published in 2013 and may now be out of date. This blog post is for my readers who enjoy the British mountains (that’s the bulk of you!) Over the past few years I have enjoyed many trips into the hills with an Android smartphone,