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 ...

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 ...

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 ...