Mini GPS Shield Hookup Guide
Alex the Giant 
Hardware Hookup
Before you can attach your shield, you will need to solder some headers to both the GPS Shiled and the Arduino Pro Mini. We recommend soldering female headers to the Pro Mini and straight male headers for the shield.
Attaching the shield to an Arduino Mini, is very easy but there is one thing to keep in mind: standard Arduino boards, like the SparkFun RedBoard, have pin offsets that make plugging a shield into the board simple, while the mini boards have symmetrical pins, which means it's very easy to plug the shield in the wrong way. Plugging the shield in backwards won't damage either board, but it is something that could be easy to overlook.
The orientation of the shield is pictured below. The correct orientation has the GPS connector on the same side as the USB or FTDI connection and the microSD card over the crystal or reset button.
