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Map Reading – Contour Lines

19th January 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Map Reading - Contour Lines

If this is the first time you are joining the Map Reading series, you should start from the first post. Last time we covered symbols on a topographic map and I mentioned contour lines as a symbols on the map, but they are much much more than that. Contour lines are the heart of a […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: 3D map, Index line, land navigation, landscape features, Navigation, Topographic maps, trip points

Map reading – what is a topographic map

29th December 2014 by Gilad Nachmani

Topographic map

The word map comes from mappa mundi (Latin for “sheet of the world”) and it can best described as a flat diagram of a pre-determined area. There are many kinds of maps and they are almost always drawn from above, but essentially they all require basic features: 1. Scale – the ratio between an object […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Contour lines, geographic north, Grid lines, land navigation, Map reading, Navigation, Scale, Topographic maps

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