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How to use GPS for hiking navigation

A GPS - or global positioning system - is a handy tool for hillwalkers. We examine how to use GPS for hiking navigation ...
If you’re a bee, your life (and the lives of 50,000 sisters in the hive) depends on navigation. Particularly, on your ability ...
The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...
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Can I use Google Maps for hiking?

With the number of mountain rescue incidents caused by people relying on Google Maps rising, we explain why using it for ...
My Maps is a hugely powerful custom maps creation tool that Google has forgotten about. Here's how I use it to level up Google Maps.
These are the 13 pieces of gear we use to pack our hiking backpacks. Telling a friend, a family member, or your significant ...
Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your ...
Perhaps inspired by the phone-free challenge of the BBC’s much-loved adventure travel show Race Across The World and the rise ...
Workforce development experts say they’ll be watching to see whether the platform, which aims to integrate skills assessment, ...
When I was laid off from my dream job, these storytelling practices helped me figure out an even better future.
Your old playbook was about optimizing the known. Your new one must be about navigating the emergent possibilities of ...
Scientists discovered how the brain uses objects to anchor our sense of direction, solving part of the mystery of spatial ...