GPS Navigation Basics
The ultimate advantage of GPS is its ability to help you navigate from your starting point to your destination. But navigating in the outdoors isn’t always as simple as going straight from point A to point B. Here are a handful of terms that are important to understand for basic navigation:
- Heading: This is the direction you’re facing, or your direction of travel when moving in a beeline fashion toward a destination.
- Bearing: This is the direction, relative to North, that you sight your compass toward when orienting in the direction of your destination. Think of it as a straight line between ...