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Survival Skillset

Lesson 1 of 14

The map: scale, symbols, access and what changes

40 min

You are at a car park at the foot of a hill with a road atlas, a phone at 60 percent and a printed screenshot of a route someone posted online. The cloud is coming down. Within an hour the screenshot has run off its edge, the phone is in your pocket because your fingers are cold, and the road atlas shows the whole hill as a single brown smudge.…

In this lesson

  • Scale: how much ground fits on the paper
  • Choosing a map
  • Measuring distance
  • Worked example: thread on a 1:25,000 map
  • Map distance is flat distance
  • Symbols and the key
  • Common mistakes
  • Rights of way and access land
  • What goes out of date
  • How to use this
  • Map care and carrying
  • Check yourself

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