It is important for any traveler to know the rules of orientation on the terrain. To navigate the terrain is not only to be able to find the cardinal points, but also to recognize your location and find the desired direction of movement. This is easy to do in familiar terrain: your location is determined by familiar landmarks (for example, trees, road forks, stones, etc.). But in unfamiliar terrain, you can determine your location using a map and a compass.
Necessary
comaps, map
Instructions
Step 1
The map is a reduced copy of space. A tourist on a hike needs to take a map, one centimeter of the scale of which would correspond to one or two kilometers.
Step 2
Besides the map, don't forget the compass. So, put the compass on the west or east side of the map and rotate the map until the compass needle is opposite the letter C on the map. In this way, you can direct your map according to the cardinal points. The top of the map corresponds to the north, the bottom to the south, the left side to the west, and the right side to the east. Since the map is a miniature image of some terrain, the location of objects on the terrain must coincide with the objects on the map. For orientation on the landscape, two objects on the map are used (for example, a river and a bridge).
Step 3
You need to stand at one of the objects, put the pencil on the map, connecting both objects, and rotate the map until the pencil finds the second object. Also, objects on the map can be recognized by eye. It is enough to compare objects on the ground and on the map. And then find your location in relation to these items. When moving, it is important to mentally measure pairs of steps. Measure your stride length. Since the map is drawn to scale, you can always calculate the distance traveled from the starting point in the direction of travel.
