How to Set and Follow Compass Bearings - Beginners Navigation & Map Reading 2-2
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Published 2023-12-05
For the practice activity you will need: paper, pen/pencil, compass, 10 objects to use as markers and a good sized space that you can walk around in.
Link to downloadable Practice Activity diagrams: bit.ly/3Nt9Eup
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Time codes:
00:00 Start & Introduction
00:42 Setting the compass bearing
02:56 True & Magnetic North
04:40 Correcting for the difference
06:27 UK Grid vs Magnetic North
08:22 Preparing for Practice Activity
09:36 Laying out the markers
10:26 Extension Activity
Reference & further reading links:
bit.ly/3vtYpqi goes into more technical and historical detail about the earth's magnetic field.
bit.ly/3cFM6yD - another good explanation of Magnetic, Grid and True Norths and I stand corrected, for "Variation" I should say Grid Magnetic Angle for the difference between Grid and Magnetic North on Ordnance Survey maps, learning never stops!
www.magnetic-declination.com/ - Find the magnetic declination at your location
bit.ly/3cnVoPv - The World Magnetic Model (WMM), produced jointly with the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information, British Geological Survey
bit.ly/38ynNRP - British Geological Survey Grid Magnetic Angle Calculator gives a reasonably up to date calculation for the difference between Magnetic and Grid North for British maps.
updated 5 December 2023
All Comments (10)
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Good video. Thanks for sharing and explaining.
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Thanks for this. I'm part of a bushcraft group and this will be a nice initial video for the group to watch
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Thank you.
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Best video on the topic.
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Thank you so much I have for years trying to declination and which way to turn your compass ring > you finally got it threw my thick head
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watched this for entertainment really but have to say it was very well demonstrated. The ball idea was a good way to explain I love navigation of all sorts. I just use a gps most of the time now when on my own but all ways take a map and compass and do know how to use them. To many people just go off in to the hills or mountains with a phone then wonder why they have to call for rescue.
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HeyYouTube， Do I have to hear dis eeel musket guy's plots everytime I watch YT?
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What about electronic compasses in smart phones for example? Do the operating systems provide them with information about north, also with regard to the deviation, calculated according to the current location of the device? Or is it necessary to program the deviation into the applications that are supposed to serve as a compass, based on information about the current position obtained from GPS or from the mobile network provider, or entered manually? Do operating systems provide to applications only raw information about north, as they get it from a sensor sensitive to a magnetic field? Which compass app do you think is the best?
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They should just make the maps to work with magnetic north and let it be simple., and if any adjustments are needed it would be small.
