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What goes out of date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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