MAP MAKING
USEFUL HINTS FOR 2ND CLASS SCOUTS Find a straight road (it’s easier if it’s straight) that stands fairly high up and commands a view, on either side, of spires, chimneys, or things. Now find a suitable spot, mark it, and then measure a half a mile or a mile, if long enough, down the road. Scout’s Pace will come in useful. On your mapping paper mark the road according to its compass direction (North will be at the top of the paper) just six inches long. This will mean the scale Is six inches to one mile. Next, at the beginning of the mile look around for a spire. Having found one suitable, take a compass bearing on it. When you’ve got it, mark a similar compass bearingg on your map. Go half a mile down the road, and take another bearing on the spire. Mark it on your map, and where the two bearings cross you can mark the spire with its suitable conventional sign. That’s easy . . . and good fun. In this way you can plot all sorts of things on your map, and be sure that they are fairly accurate. And, for once we will have actually made a map without worrying about books.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20077, 6 April 1935, Page 11
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208MAP MAKING Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20077, 6 April 1935, Page 11
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