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Link	Description
OziExplorer	Great GPS software. Can communicate with several brands of GPS receivers. Very useful both for the planning and evaluation phase of hiking trips.
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Garmin	Leading manufacturer of GPS devices.
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Joe Mehaffey	A lot of information about the GPS
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ESA navigation	Site about EGNOS, the European version of the WAAS system. It is expected to be operational Q2-2005 and will make the GPS more reliable and precise.
Thesaurus of Geographic names	Database with the co-ordinates of virtually all places of the world.
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Terraserver	Collection of satellite pictures of several areas of the Earth, mostly in the US.
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Sierra Nevada	Information about this N.P. in southern Spain. We went there in  2001.
Scotland	Site about outdoor sports in Scotland (in Dutch).  Our 2003 hiking expedition took place in Scotland. This fact was anounced at this site while it still was a secret to our members at the time of writing.  They didn't find out tough, because they never look at this page :-)
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Other hiking clubs	Yahoo directory of other hiking clubs. Once our site was listed there too, but for some reason the kicked us out :-(
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Snow Forecast	Accurate forecasts of snowfall worldwide.
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Suunto	Manufacturer of ''wristop computers": advanced watches with altimeters, electronic compasses etc. Ideal for hikers. Kind of expensive.
Confluence	Database (including pictures) of all latitude/longitude confluence points!
GPS-newsgroup-1	Two Usenet newsgroups about the GPS and GPS-receivers.
GPS-newsgroup-2	Both are very interesting and quite active.
GPS-newsgroup-3	A Dutch GPS newsgroup, hosted by a gps webshop.
Hiking-newsgroup	A newsgroup on hiking.
/GPS-world	Online version of gps-magazine