Digital mapping – on the hill
Preparing for your trip
Anquet Maps on your PC at home is the perfect tool to allow you to plan your desired route, or research routes that you have downloaded from
the internet. However, Anquet’s involvement with your walking goes beyond just the planning stage, as Anquet can also help you with your navigation,
whether you do that by the trusty compass, a GPS unit, or by using Pocket Anquet.
Map and compass
Having planned your route in Anquet, you can now print the map with the route plotted on it along with a route card. You can either print exactly to
scale, or you can enlarge the map. A lot of our users print a map so that the route fully fills the page and
then print a second map on either a diferent scale of mapping, or at a reduced zoom level and then these two maps are put back-to-back inside a
waterproof map case. The first map is used for navigation, whilst the second map can be used if a change of plan should be needed, or simply to
identify the scenery you are walking through. We advise users of digital devices to also print these maps for safety reasons.
GPS and Anquet
A GPS can be used in a number of ways with Anquet. In a very basic form, you can just read of a grid reference from the device, and then refer to a
paper map you have printed from Anquet.
However, most users having plotted their route in Anquet, simply connect their GPS to their PC to
download the route’s waypoints to their GPS unit. They can then ask the GPS to ‘navigate’ the route for them. The GPS unit will then tell them how far to
the next waypoint and in which direction to walk.
On returning from a walk with a GPS unit, you can simply connect your GPS unit to Anquet
and upload to Anquet the track of where you have walked. You can now view on the map exactly where you have been and save this
for later reference.
Pocket Anquet
Pocket Anquet brings the best of both worlds to one device. Not only do you get the functionality of a GPS unit, but you also get to view your position
on the mapping that you planned the route on.
Pocket Anquet is the perfect companion to the PC application. You can plan a route on Ordnance
Survey 1:25,000 scale mapping on your PC and then simply transfer the route and the mapping to your Pocket PC or Microsoft-enabled Smartphone.
The Anquet Virtual GPS, which is part of Pocket Anquet, gives you all of the necessary features of a traditional GPS unit but with the addition of being
able to view your position on the same mapping that you planned your route on.
Pocket Anquet will show you exactly where
you are on the map and the route that you are following. The Anquet Virtual GPS not only gives you your position and a compass, but also tells you
in which direction the next waypoint is, and how far away it is, making navigation very reliable and easy.
Pocket Anquet will also create a tracklog of where you have been as you walk, which you can either review on Pocket Anquet or simply upload to
your PC to view it on the larger screen.
As Pocket Anquet is a cut-down version of the full Anquet PC software, the interface and usage is
very easy for Anquet users as menu options and commands all remain the same, making sure that everything is to hand just as you would expect.
Graham Hughes, Managing Director,
Anquet Technology