Ramblers Cymru has been pioneering new technology that turns your mobile phone into a state-of-the-art walking guide, and aims to get 10% more people walking in Wales over the next four years. Andrew McCloy takes a look at the future of walking…

Walkmag has already highlighted some great audio walks and the use of GPS for art, but a new project by the band Grasscut is taking music, art, mapping and walking to a whole new level…

Imagine walking through the streets of London, traversing the centuries. One minute you’re gazing over the Covent Garden Piazza in the 1720s, the next you’re on Carnaby in the swinging 60s…

Navigation is an art in itself, but in the case of artist Jeremy Wood it’s doubly true. Over the past decade, this self-declared ‘GPS artist’ has pioneered the act of drawing and mapping with satellite navigation technology – by treating himself as a moving pencil!

Pricey package but it’s a good rugged unit with many impressive features…

Lightweight, easy to navigate, impressive “zoom in” picture quality – it’s our Best in Test for Summer 2010…

Some excellent additional features including the combination of touch screen and buttons to navigate…

Waterproof, easy to use and it has digital elevation maps with an excellent 3D view option…

Walking. It used to be so simple. A wilderness. A map. Away you go. To keep up with the times we thought we’d better give the latest digital navigation handsets a good old once-over…

Garmin’s top-of-the-range models boast a 30 per cent bigger screen and five clearly-labelled buttons, making basic processes much quicker…