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GPS Receivers are an excellent navigation tool. These excellent navigation tools help us to quickly find our position, avoid backtracking, and help to stop us from becoming lost. It is best to think of a GPS Receiver as just another tool that should be added to the "Navigators Toolbelt" not as a replacement for the two most important tools in your Navigators Toolbelt; a Topographical Map and a Magnetic Compass.
The OpenStreetMap is designed to create and provide free geographic data such as street maps for everyone. Most maps actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. Open Streetmap is designed to avoid this restriction.
All modern Wilderness Navigation Courses and GPS Courses should integrate together the use of GPS Receivers with the Sighting Compass and Topographical Maps. All three components are now basic safety gear for anyone planning to travel the wilderness safely. It is also important to note that the Wilderness Navigation does take time and practice to master, don't sell yourself short by taking a very basic short course.