With the right app (try Digital Field Compass for Android, or for a more full-featured experience, Gaia GPS for iPhone and Android), you can use your phone as a navigation device, no GPS required.

Using a compass to find your location involves a technique called triangulation. For this to work, you need your map, compass, and at least two visible landmarks, three if you want to be extra ...

The compass dictates your direction or heading, and a map shows you where you are on that heading by giving you points of reference. You use the two together to determine where you are, where you ...

This is why basic compass and map skills are so important. "Using a map with a compass is a skill that a lot of most people probably don't possess anymore," Bieri said.

The magnetic compass — used in navigation for hundreds of years — is a tool that helps you find your way. Good beginner hiking/orienteering compasses can be found online or in outdoor sections ...

At the center of that push is land navigation, which tasks soldiers with plotting points on a map with a protractor and finding spots in the woods using a compass during both day and night.

The Map and Compass Navigation Skills Class will meet at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 10, at Rockwood Nature Center at 3401 Courthouse Road in Chesterfield.

Updated: Mar 2, 2022 / 11:08 AM EST GRAFTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Forest Ranger Steven Jackson led a three-hour map and compass training session at the Capital District Sportsman Center on February 18.