Beginners Guide to Using a Map

From the landscapes laced with history, dotted with footprints, and cradling waterways for freshwater fishing, to the braided plains, sunburnt countries, and pioneered pathways – a paper map often supersedes electronic gadgets as the ultimate outback tracker.

While a GPS unit is the most popular point of navigation, a printed map will never lose signal, malfunction, or run out of battery. Be it cross-referencing your destination with two fingers tracing the grid lines, or tracking your trip with distance markers – sometimes, the old-fashioned approach is the most foolproof when it comes to finding our way.

00:00 – Intro
00:20 – Paper maps Vs GPS units
00:42 – Atlases
01:04 – Printed maps
01:43 – Legend
02:01 – Scale
02:36 – Road types
03:03 – Symbols
03:22 – Grid lines: cross-referencing to locate destinations
05:05 – Other considerations
05:37 – Summary