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Map Reading – What are grid and coordinates systems?

9th February 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Just a wet walk in the Cairngorms, it has nothing to do with coordinates systems but it's nice

If this is the first time you are joining the Map Reading series, you should start from the first post. A grid system on a map is usually square and is represented by drawn lines on the map creating those squares. The purpose of the grid system is to give each point in the map […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: GCS, Geographic Coordinate Systems, GPS, land navigation, latitude, longitude, Navigation, Universal Transverse Mercator, UTM

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