Compass: With few words Easy to follow

A compass is extremely valuable equipment used by scouts and hikers, pilots and campers, in airplanes, in mobile phones, captains of ships at sea, on spaceships and guided missiles, by car drivers and mountain climbers (even fortune tellers!). It’s everywhere. It is such a simple and powerful tool that everyone should know how to use it. Prepare yourself and you always find the way!



This book is with as little text as possible and lots of pictures to make it quick to read, easy to follow, easy to remember and easy to recall.



See the Table of Contents to know what to expect from this book.



Forewords

The history

The compass

Types of Compasses

Digital and Modern Compasses

Basic compass

Advanced Compass

Compass Rose

Scales

Declination

Terminology

The Three North

Magnetic Declination Basics

Declination Changes Over Time

Magnetic Meridians

Inclination or Dip

Local Anomalies



Compass Use

Compass Use

Accurate reading

Orienting compass

Taking and following bearing

Direction of object and direction of travel

Map



Map and Compass

Orienting Map and Land

Measure a Bearing on a Map with compass

Compass bearing on map

Determine Your Position on Map

Determine Position of an object on a Map

Measure Distance to objects

Calculations



Directions without Compass

The sun

The stars

Analog Watch

Shadow-Tip

Nature



DIY

How to make a Compass

Emergency compass

Simple homemade compass

How to Make a Protractor

How to Make a Clinometer



Popular compass manufacturers

Do you need one?



Appendix

Compass Tips and Terminology

Tips

Terms

The 32 Points of the Compass

Inclination slope

Declination Vectors

Declinations Online