FrankOceanXray
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- Oct 29, 2008
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I make paper maps for a living so I certainly value them!
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I make paper maps for a living so I certainly value them!
Who has, values, wants, needs or uses paper maps?
What scale?
How many?
Why?
The age of the atlas is far from over.
What about land nav or orienteering?
How about celestial constellations? I’m a fan of Orion...right now in the Western morning sky. Maybe Big Dipper and the North Star?
Anybody collecting hiking maps? Those trails just might save some steps or your life...
Navigation is always an important skill. Your phone and or vehicle nav app might not always be there.
Anybody subscribe to following railroads and or rivers? Why would you do that?
Lots of folks couldn’t find their own arse with both hands and a trained team of sherpas. Some skills never lose their value.
Besides, we need healthy and constructive distractions this year...
Who has, values, wants, needs or uses paper maps?
What scale?
How many?
Why?
The age of the atlas is far from over.
What about land nav or orienteering?
How about celestial constellations? I’m a fan of Orion...right now in the Western morning sky. Maybe Big Dipper and the North Star?
Anybody collecting hiking maps? Those trails just might save some steps or your life...
Navigation is always an important skill. Your phone and or vehicle nav app might not always be there.
Anybody subscribe to following railroads and or rivers? Why would you do that?
Lots of folks couldn’t find their own arse with both hands and a trained team of sherpas. Some skills never lose their value.
Besides, we need healthy and constructive distractions this year...
I would love to take a in-depth land navigation class.
I was lucky to have learned at a young age with Boy Scouts, which helped give me a leg up when I was in the Corps. Do scouts even teach it anymore?
I keep paper 1:25k and 1:50k topos of certain key areas. Always check you mag declination which has shifted quite a bit over the years. I have a couple key websites bookmarked on my laptop that I’ll post when I can hobble that far.
Land Nav, especially terrain association, and having a solid pace count is a perishable skill like so many others. Get out and walk the earth in your local AOs, if you have kids get them involved in the fun.
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Downloaded complete electronic files of MD, VA, and WV (1:24K USGS Topo).
Printed files from work to home and made an Ausie-fold book (kept in my ghb).
Smart man!
More than 180, subtract 180. Less than 180, add 180.
We have paper maps of all the lower 48 states and Canada, when the big one hits or a solar flair takes out satellites we will be good to go. The Navy stopped teaching Celestial Navigation the Coast Guard still Teaches it. When at war and a ship get hit by by electronics. We rely too much on our electronic gismos, take for example when a computer go out in a Walmart or any business they shut down. They can't count money back, figure out % Tax or even add up prices.
I make paper maps for a living so I certainly value them!