MAP AND COMPASS Learning the Basics MAP AND

MAP AND COMPASS Learning the Basics

MAP AND COMPASS So easy – A caveman can do it!

MAP AND COMPASS Topographic Maps 3 • Where things are and how to get to them • Describe the shape of the land • Define and locate natural and man made features • Distance between two places • Direction from one point to another

MAP AND COMPASS TOPOGRAPHIC MAP SYMBOLS 4 Primary highway Overpass - Underpass Secondary highway Light-duty road Buildings School -- church Unimproved road Woodland Trail Orchard Railroad: single track Scrub Railroad: double track Bridge Well water – spring Rapids Tunnel March (swamp) Footbridge Falls

MAP AND COMPASS Basics Cardinal Points 0 North = 0/360 0 South = 180 East = 900 0 West = 270

MAP AND COMPASS Scale Di. Trni

MAP AND COMPASS Contour Lines

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MAP AND COMPASS Magnetic Declination Di. Trni

MAP AND COMPASS Direction of Travel Arrow Magnifying Glass Dial or Graduation ring Bearing Index Compass needle – Red points North 10 North-south lines or orienting lines Orienting Arrow and fluorescent dots

MAP AND COMPASS THE SYLVA SYSTEM – Easy as 1 -2 -3 Point the baseplate to your destination 11

MAP AND COMPASS THE SYLVA SYSTEM – Easy as 1 -2 -3 Set Compass Heading 12

MAP AND COMPASS THE SYLVA SYSTEM – Easy as 1 -2 -3 Follow Your Heading 13

MAP AND COMPASS 14 Review

MAP AND COMPASS “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”. ~Henry David Thoreau