{"id":1788730,"date":"2020-04-14T18:57:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788730"},"modified":"2020-04-14T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:57:14","slug":"four-articles-on-navigating-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/four-articles-on-navigating-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Articles on Navigating Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Outside<\/em>\u2019s Andrew Skurka has posted a four-part series on the skills and tools required to navigate outdoors (remember outdoors?), which in general means knowing how not to get lost. In part one, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2404906\/backpacking-outdoor-maps-guide\">A Backpacker\u2019s Guide to Maps<\/a>,\u201d Skurka recommends what kind of maps to take with you: paper maps, mainly, of various scales, but with digital maps as a backup. Part two, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2405183\/backcountry-navigation-gear-gps-maps-compass\">The Gear You Need to Navigate in the Backcountry<\/a>,\u201d looks at equipment: not just GPS, but also basics like a compass, altimeter and a watch. In part three, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2405184\/navigational-storytelling-how-to\">How to Master Navigational Storytelling<\/a>,\u201d is about developing a narrative of the route you\u2019re taking to avoid getting lost. Finally, Skurka offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2405201\/navigation-skills-test-checklist\">a checklist of skills to test yourself against<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/the-lost-art-of-finding-our-way\/\">The Lost Art of Finding Our Way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside\u2019s Andrew Skurka has posted a four-part series on the skills and tools required to navigate outdoors (remember outdoors?), which in general means knowing how not to get lost. In part one, \u201cA Backpacker\u2019s Guide&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/four-articles-on-navigating-outdoors\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,752],"tags":[522,315,927],"class_list":["post-1788730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gps","category-navigation","tag-hiking","tag-lost","tag-orienteering","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":969,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/could-societys-embrace-of-gps-be-eroding-our-cognitive-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788730,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Could Society\u2019s Embrace of GPS Be Eroding Our Cognitive Maps?&#8217;","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Earlier this month in the\u00a0New York Times, Greg Milner looked at something that was a frequent subject during The Map Room\u2019s first life: people getting themselves lost by blindly following their GPS\u00a0units (or satnavs, as the British call them). 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Opening today at The Map House in London, The Mapping of the Moon: 1669-1969, an exhibition of three centuries of lunar cartography. \"The exhibition\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/national-geographic-moon.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/national-geographic-moon.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/national-geographic-moon.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/national-geographic-moon.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1808285,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/07\/gps-negatively-impacts-spatial-memory\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788730,"position":2},"title":"GPS Negatively Impacts Spatial Memory","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 July 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Rebecca Solnit points to a 2020 study that attempts to measure the impact of using GPS navigation devices on our spatial memory. After assessing 50 drivers, researchers found that drivers with more GPS experience had worse spatial memory when navigating without GPS. But more significantly, it\u2019s a longitudinal study: 13\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GPS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GPS","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1786930,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/old-phones-old-maps-and-old-tech\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788730,"position":3},"title":"Old Phones, Old Maps and Old Tech","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 January 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"CNet\u2019s Kent German asks people to stop tech-shaming over old phones and paper maps, though I'm not exactly sure who exactly does this (it's not like he provides any examples). 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