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Map Reading and orienteering
This is not a necessarily skill to posess in Airsoft, but is definitely useful throughout your life. While many people today rely on GPS and Sat Nav's, what happens when they fail? The best way to orienteer is someone who knows his or her way around the map and someone who effectively can use it to get to a certain location.
The key of map reading is organizing your route through bearings and map coordinates and following it with the help of the map and the compass. If you're in the squad of mates then usually the team leader is responsible for orienteering. If the leader fails to do it effectively, then the team will get stressful and blame the leader for lack of competence. To avoid it, practice map reading around your local area, so when there is a need to map read then you know you will do well in the role.
We aren't going to write down all you need to know for map reading, because we aren't experts at it. Some of us have some basic knowledge and experience, but we aren't the best. Below this article there is a link to the Ordnance Survey website, where you can increase your knowledge from those who make the best maps of the Great Britain.
What do you need to have when Map Reading:
Here is the link for the Ordnance Survey website:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/resources/map-reading/index.html
(this link has a series of videos to teach you map reading from how to use a compass to how to read contour lines)
Link to the Ordnance Survey online shop:
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop/
You may also learn how to read the map from Cadets or Public Services courses.
And also a PDF (owned by Ordnance Survey) for a read:
The key of map reading is organizing your route through bearings and map coordinates and following it with the help of the map and the compass. If you're in the squad of mates then usually the team leader is responsible for orienteering. If the leader fails to do it effectively, then the team will get stressful and blame the leader for lack of competence. To avoid it, practice map reading around your local area, so when there is a need to map read then you know you will do well in the role.
We aren't going to write down all you need to know for map reading, because we aren't experts at it. Some of us have some basic knowledge and experience, but we aren't the best. Below this article there is a link to the Ordnance Survey website, where you can increase your knowledge from those who make the best maps of the Great Britain.
What do you need to have when Map Reading:
- Map (recommended Ordnance Survey maps)
- Compass (Military ones from surplus shops are very good and also quite cheap)
- Appropriate clothing and footwear for the weather
- Food and Water
Here is the link for the Ordnance Survey website:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/resources/map-reading/index.html
(this link has a series of videos to teach you map reading from how to use a compass to how to read contour lines)
Link to the Ordnance Survey online shop:
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop/
You may also learn how to read the map from Cadets or Public Services courses.
And also a PDF (owned by Ordnance Survey) for a read:
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