Its aluminum cover is engraved with instructions, and a unique galactic map. Astronomer and astrophysicist Frank Drake designed the map, working with fellow astronomer Carl Sagan and artist and ...

Luckily, ski resorts tend to put a lot of time and thought into their trail maps to help skiers get around and stick to ...

Here are his tips on how to properly read and fully use a topographic map for navigation. Once upon a time, you had to go to a brick-and-mortar outdoors store or a well-stocked library to look at ...

For as long as road maps have been around, men have complained that women cannot read them. Now a team of scientists have concluded that there are very real biological reasons behind the cause of ...

Large-scale maps - 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10,000. Features appear larger on the map. This may be used for individual towns and cities. Small-scale - 1:25,000, 1: ...

This is from the series: Let's Do Maths. This clip could be used to cover directions, distance, scale and map reading and can be used as a starting point for related learning of co-ordinates in ...