Maps and navigation
Navigation is two skills: reading a map so the ground makes sense, and fixing your position when it does not. This course covers both, plus how satellite positioning works and where it fails.
What you'll learn
10 chapters, then the quiz
- 01Reading a mapScale, symbols, legend.
- 02Contours and terrainSeeing shape in lines.
- 03Grid referencesNaming a point.
- 04The compassDirection you can trust.
- 05Orienting and relocatingMatching map to ground.
- 06ProjectionsWhy every flat map lies.
- 07How satellite positioning worksTiming, not signalling.
- 08Where positioning failsCities, canyons, cold.
- 09Digital maps and routingWhat the algorithm optimises.
- 10Navigating in practiceTechnique over gadgets.
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