{"id":7557,"date":"2004-06-08T03:30:35","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T01:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/08\/orienteering-and-map-reading\/"},"modified":"2005-04-22T06:15:54","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T03:15:54","slug":"orienteering-and-map-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/08\/orienteering-and-map-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Orienteering and map reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040608-compass.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/>Going through the web and reading pages related to my GPS device quest, I came across a couple of interesting and very related projects &#8211; orienteering and map reading.<\/p>\n<p>Here are few links for serlf education.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.map-reading.com\/\">Reading Topographic Maps<\/a> &#8211; A Free On-Line Book on How to Read Topographic Maps and Use a Compass.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cis.ksu.edu\/~dha5446\/topoweb\/guide.html\">Topo Map Reading Guide<\/a> &#8211; help on how to read topographic maps.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learn-orienteering.org\/\">Learn Orienteering<\/a> &#8211; site that seems to be in some reorganizing stage, but still provides some useful info on how to handle the compass and find your way around if your device doesn&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonorienteering.org\/faq.htm\">Small FAQ<\/a> at some orienteering club&#8217;s web site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I hope you will not get lost. ;)<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Going through the web and reading pages related to my GPS device quest, I came across a couple of interesting and very related projects &#8211; orienteering and map reading. Here are few links for serlf education. Reading Topographic Maps &#8211; A Free On-Line Book on How to Read Topographic Maps and Use a Compass. Topo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/08\/orienteering-and-map-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orienteering and map reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9171,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/27\/daily-del-icio-us-bookmarks\/","url_meta":{"origin":7557,"position":0},"title":"Daily del.icio.us bookmarks","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 27, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-06-27 Cypriot proverbs - Wikiquote Tagged as: cyprus expressions phrases proverbs quotes sayings Gnomedex 2005 - Blogs in the Classroom -- (click to proceed to the next slide) Tagged as: blogging class classroom education presentations teaching Slashdot | Best Way to Back Up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18754,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/06\/digital-attack-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":7557,"position":1},"title":"Digital Attack Map","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 6, 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"Digital Attack Map","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10878,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/31\/three-things-to-like-about-wikimapia\/","url_meta":{"origin":7557,"position":2},"title":"Three things to like about WikiMapia","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 31, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are three things that I like about WikiMapia : \u00c2\u00a0It's brings together the excellence of Google Maps and the social power of Wiki.\u00c2\u00a0 The results are better than anywhere else.\u00c2\u00a0 Even Cyprus, which usually gets little attention on the web, is covered pretty good. 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