GPS Surveying

SWAAG GPS Surveying Technology

The current version (January 2012) is available on Lulu.com

View sample maps (pdf) created by the techniques described. Zoom in to them to see their quality.

All proceeds go to enable SWAAG's work in Swaledale.

1. Archaeological Landscape Surveying and Mapping using hand held GPS Receivers. Including GPS buying guide

2. Setting up and using your GPS

3. SWAAG Mapping Procedure Stage 1 - Surveying Data and Data Archiving

4. SWAAG Mapping Procedure Stage 2 - GPS Data Processing using GPS-TrackMaker Available via Lulu

5. SWAAG Mapping Procedure Stage 3 - Map Production using DrawPlus Available via Lulu

6. A series of short flash videos showing the basic steps in Stage 2 and Stage 3 processing

7. SWAAG Mapping Procedure using IrfanView to manipulate survey data

8. A simple method of plotting GPS data onto free OS 1:10,000 Street View Maps.

9. A simple method of plotting GPS data onto Google Earth.

The above SWAAG GPS mapping procedure was presented as a CBA (Yorkshire) workshop at Fremington, Reeth in March 2011, organised by Trevor Pearson (CBA/English Heritage).

Peter welcoming 21 attendees at the CBA / SWAAG GPS Mapping Workshop at Fremington, when the use of navigation grade GPS instruments in archaeological landscape mapping was presented by Trevor Pearson (CBA/English Heritage) and Stephen Eastmead (SWAAG).

SWAAG GPS Surveying Technology - 7 papers by Stephen Eastmead is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.swaag.org.