Navigation - Map and Compass Technique

This practical guide will help you get the most out of your map and give you the key skills to using your compass. It’s then down to you. Practice will make perfect, and with that will come the freedom and confidence to enjoy our hills and mountains.

Map and Compass: the art of navigation Pete Hawkins (Cicerone, 2003)

Hillwalking Steve Long (Mountain Leader Training, 2004)

Mountain Weather: A practical guide for hillwalkers and climbers in the British Isles David Pedgley (Cicerone, 2006)

The Hillwalker’s Guide to Mountaineering: Essential skills for Britain’s classic routes Terry Adby and Stuart Johnston (Cicerone, 2003)

The Hillwalker’s Manual Bill Birkett (Cicerone, 2002)

Useful Contacts and Addressses

Training Courses

For Map and Compass Courses run by the author and sponsored by Silva
www.navigationcourses.co.uk
 
Other map and compass courses that follow the NNAS syllabus available from The National Navigation Award Scheme
www.nnas.org.uk

Digital Mapping Companies

Tracklogs Digital Mapping
www.tracklogs.co.uk 

Memory Map
www.memory-map.co.uk

Anquet Maps
www.anquet.co.uk

Fugawi
www.fugawi.com

Home Countries Rural Agencies

Natural England
Tel: 0845 600 3078
www.naturalengland.org.uk

Countryside Council for Wales
Tel: 08451 306 229 
www.ccw.gov.uk

Scottish Natural Heritage
Tel: 01463 725000
www.snh.org.uk

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Northern Ireland)
Tel: 02890 524999
www.dardni.gov.uk

Other Useful Addresses

Silva UK
www.silva.ltd.uk

British Mountaineering Council
www.thebmc.co.uk

The Ramblers Association
www.ramblers.org.uk

British Geological Survey Magnetic Variation Calculator
http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/navigation.html

Website that translates virtually any locational reference (latitude and longitude, grid references and post codes and so on, into others
www.nearby.org.uk