The four main points of the compass are north ... and/or by showing a scale bar. The scale shows how much bigger the real world is than the map. If the scale is 1:50,000 it means that the map ...

Mastering map and compass skills promotes you from casual ... At the bottom of every OS map, the scale bar (like the one above) shows metres, kilometres and miles. For navigation, it’s easiest ...

A compass contains a small bar magnet on a pivot so that it can rotate. The compass needle points in the direction of the Earth's magnetic field, or the magnetic field of a magnet. place the ...