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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.


Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page xxviii
Last paragraph, 3rd line

"Ordinance Survey" should be "Ordnance Survey" - i.e., artillery, not by-laws.

Anonymous 
Printed Page xxix
2nd paragraph, last sentence

"...reveal their loscation..."

change "loscation" to "location"

Anonymous 
Printed Page 32
Hack #9, 2nd paragraph

missing period after 'ground'

Anonymous 
Printed Page 35
2nd-to-last paragraph

"UCT" should be "UTC".

Anonymous 
Printed Page 100
3rd paragraph, right after "screw" note

"in-brower" is missing an "s".

Anonymous 
Printed Page 220
45% way down page

"...custom Gamin connectors..."
change "Gamin" to "Garmin"

Anonymous 
Printed Page 346
1st paragraph, second line from bottom just before command-line transcript

r.in.glad should be r.in.gdal

Anonymous 
Printed Page 397
End of paragraph 3

Missing period.

Anonymous 


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