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    GPS And Your Driving Test
    GPS And Your Driving Test
    GPS And Your Driving Test
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    GPS And Your Driving Test

    By John Maris

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    Mainly for, but not restricted to, the UK learner driver. How GPS and satnavs work and how they can go wrong and cause confusion and distraction in the independent driving part of the test. The aim with the aid of tips is to get you comfortable with satnav while you learn so that you will be fully at ease with it in the test and avoid any costly mistakes you may otherwise be led into.
    The problem with GPS hence satnavs is that the principle is so useful and popular that misconceptions have grown that lead many into a false sense of security. The book removes those misconceptions emphasing that satnavs are a useful aid but not the whole story of getting you from A to B. The book explains in easy terms what is behind a satnav. The GPS, the map and how the software works, including how a route is calculated.
    The info is aimed at UK drivers as satnav has been introduced into the test. However, other countries may follow in due course. The book refers to stuff that is UK based but the principles behind are similar anywhere else. As such, although aimed at learner drivers the content has value to any satnav or other GPS user interested in finding more about how they work.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Maris
    Release dateOct 5, 2017
    ISBN9781370977819
    GPS And Your Driving Test
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    John Maris

    John Maris is a professional navigator and surveyor, offshore and coastal within the Oil and Gas exploration industry. With the increasing use of SatNav among the general user population, in vehicles, mobile phones and other applications, he is attempting to increase the awareness of users of how GPS, navigation and mapping combine to give us these systems. It is a fascinating and fantastic technology but not without its problems. A higher understanding of how it works will enable you to get the best out of your system, avoiding confusion and being misled.

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      GPS And Your Driving Test - John Maris

      GPS And Your Driving Test

      John Maris

      Tips to master GPS and satnav in the independent driving test

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright John Maris, azimuthnavigation.com 2017. All rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The author, publisher, and distributor assume no responsibility for the use or misuse of this product, or for any injury, damage and/or financial loss sustained to persons or property as a result of using this report. While every effort has been made to ensure reliability of the information within, the liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use, misuse or abuse of the operation of any methods, strategies, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein is the sole responsibility of the reader.

      Kick the tyres, light the fires, mirror, indicate, manoeuvre, let's go

      It's all about navigation so you can navigate to sections and back to contents throughout the book.

      Contents

      Before You Go on the Drive

      Introduction

      1 What GPS Is

      1.1 Space Segment

      1.2 Control Segment

      2 How GPS Works

      2.1 Positioning Method

      2.2 Position Calculation

      2.3 GPS Signal

      3 What Can Go Wrong?

      3.1 Don't Be Thrown by Accuracy

      3.2 Errors You Won't Notice

      3.3 What You Can Notice and Allow For

      4 A Bit of Diff. In Case You Have It

      5 A Sunday Drive in the Country

      5.1 Uphill and Downhill

      5.2 On the Flat

      6 The Satnav Digital Map

      6.1 Making the Map

      6.2 Navigating a Route

      7 Conclusion

      8 Tip List Revisited

      9 References and Acknowledgements

      Appendix

      Before You Go on the Drive

      You are starting to learn to drive. Using GPS, a satnav, is part of the test. Before starting on the drive through this book there are important things to consider.

      Navigators use as many nav aids as available with consideration to their reliability at the time. Your satnav is another navigation aid to use. It is not the dog's b...s end all as many believe. It does not give you pinpoint accuracy anywhere in the world at anytime. It is a tool. Understand it for the more you understand a tool and know its limits the better use you will make of it. Surprise your examiner with your knowledge. You will get good safety points.

      Once upon a time when we lived in caves we needed to find our way around to food grounds via grounds safe from predators and then back home to our cave. Fortunately, nature blessed us with an excellent navigation device that took millions of years to develop and refine. The Mark I eyeball. Ok, we later learned to use stars, sun or moon but that combined the Mark I eyeball on the sky combined with the Mark I eyeball on the ground.

      We still have this nav system but how often do we forget and just trust the computer without bothering to see if it looks right?

      What did we do on the road before satnav? We used a paper map and that best navigation aid in the world. The Mark 1 eyeball. Driving locally we still used both these nav aids but relied more on the eyeball. We still used a map but it was in our heads. We may not realise it but it was in our heads and not a visual distraction so the eye was used more. This is still the important factor. LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW! Your visual reference/perception may not be as accurate as a computer with good input data but if it looks about right it probably is.

      The thing about modern driving is that it is becoming more like flying a plane. Pilots go through monitoring routines (not necessarily in this order).

      Air Speed Indicator, Attitude, Altitude, Direction Indicator, Position/Location (fix on a map), Window, Window, Window. Speed, Attitude....................

      Drivers do some of these. Speed, Window, Map, Window, occasionally fuel. Airways are less traffic dense

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