How to use your compass
This is the last of our series of blog posts on how to read a map and use a compass. Over the past few weeks we've looked at which type of map is best for you, what that map is telling you, how to...
Getting to know your compass
This week we thought we'd take you through getting to know your compass.Let's go through each part ...This is the base plate - this is what the compass is mounted on and has rulers and scales on it to...
Understanding grid references
Today we here at Ordnance Survey would like to go through understanding grid references.Having selected the right Ordnance Survey map for our chosen leisure activty and understood what the map is...
What's my map telling me?
So - having read the blog from last week you know which map you need - now you need to know what it is telling you.When our cartographers were creating the maps they couldn't write in words what...
Which map is right for me?
That's it - the 2011 series of Ordnance Survey map reading workshops in Cotswolds stores is over. Thank you to everyone who came along to one - we hope that you enjoyed the evening and are now making...
Maps - not apps
I don't know whether you caught the BBC Breakfast News on Easter Monday? They had a feature with Mountain Rescue in the Peak District where they were pleaing for people to use maps and not smart phone...
