 GPSU,
an excellent and affordable (c.a. £20) resource allowing management of waypoints, routes and trackpoints against a digital map background. Its the one I tend to use most as it has the major advantage of being able to hold more than 500 waypoints at one time. As its shareware there is also a limited free trial version, but its well worth the upgrade.
 Ozi-Explorer
a very professional but more expensive (c.a. $65) resource allowing management of waypoints, routes and trackpoints against a digital map background. As its shareware there is also a limited free trial version.
 MagWay; a good basic free waypoint editor for Magellan GPS units, with the advantage of being able to convert  travel information into routes / waypoints with a little bit of extra free software.
 Magellan DataSave; a bog-standard free waypoint editor from Magellan.
How to make your own Data Transfer cable. This is quite easy to make, works well and is much cheaper than the one from Magellan.
For a different example see: http://www.kolumbus.fi/ari.torpstrom/mag315.htm It is in Finnish but the pictures are self explanatory.
Ordnance Survey have a Get-a-map service; providing a free mapping service of up to 10 maps at various scales subject to accepting their terms and conditions which include displaying a copyright acknowledgement. I personally find these too small to be of much use.
Better sources of free maps are  or  . Click on the map and zoom in to 1:50000 scale and then save the image to your hard-drive. A nifty alternative is to use aerial photos from MultiMap-Photos The example here is Helvellyn with 1:50k map overlay!
Otherwise, I've found the free trial version of  Image Assembler very useful for stitching these maps or digital photos together.
I've tried NiMH batteries (1.2v 1500mA) and found they last around 5 hours tops, presumably NiCd are worse.
The best thing I've found are Energizer's AA Lithium batteries, they last for ages & are very very light.
 My Visual Basic Macro Code for converting OS grid references to latitude / longitude in MS Office 2000 software.
My Recommended GPS Produces My recommendations for good GPS units and other useful produces
UK Hills Database: Chris Crocker & Graham Jackson's comprehensive database of all UK hills
Where's the Path Bill Chadwick's really nifty little map viewing tool tool
Simon Edwardes Mountains of England and Wales; lots of good stuff
Chris Crocker Statistical Topics in Hill walking Web Site; lots of good stuff inc. mountain database
Phil Brady's Information on converting Grid References - and also more here too...
SMC's GPS CD-Rom for Scottish Hills, for several GPS types & formats
John's "Milair" site UK GPS waypoints, and useful Garmin stuff
John Dawson's Lake District Walks Web Site - 43 detailed walks with GPS routes.
Travel by GPS.com Lots of useful GPS stuff
Pennine Way Site with GPS information for the pennine way
GPSWaypoint an on-line searchable repository of GPS waypoints and routes
GPS Cycle Routes
V-G's Hill Lists with Memory Map Downloads
sci.geo.satellite-nav newsgroup Source of infinite advice on all things GPS; (or Google list for "sci.geo.satellite-nav")
uk.rec.walkingUK Walking newsgroup; (or Google list for "uk.rec.walking")
RHB "Relative Hills of Britain" Discussion Group
NYLDWA North Yorkshire Long Distance Walkers Association; our regular LDWA group
MLTA Mountain Leader Training Association
BAIML British Association of International Mountain Leaders
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