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[Lyle Brotherton]

Terrific suggestions and new Boards created so please create threads and post within these

Can't wait to join the compass name debate

[Jester]

I call Silva Type compasses...Silva Type Compasses.

[Skills4Survival]

Lyle,

Forgive my spelling mistakes, did not have time to review.

I would consider doing a full "mindmap" on this. A tool you can use for free is on www.thebrain.com. I am conviced you did this exercise when making the content section of the book, this is about the same, only initially I would advice to use less topics, since a copy of the content would be enormous for a forum. However, you could consider asking someone if a remark pertains to a certain section of the book (Maybe it is safe to assume everybody on the site has the book?).

If you have the first list of topics (copied from the book content section), you start "normalising" basically a new grouping process. Items which have a relation to each other you put together (itaritive process) and come up with an overarching name. This method is used in database building as well. For instance, many survival topics you can bring back to: Fire, water, food, protection, navigation, health, signaling, shelter. For navigation this has not been done I believe (at least not in a general accepted way). Navigation and knowledge related to it is a mix of geography, carthography, geodesy, astronomy, specific skills, etc. etc. Maybe these scientific studies are to high up in the tree of topics and you want it to stay practical. You can always detail the topic list of one topic is overloading the section.

here an idea (some of the clarification you could mention in the forum in small capitals maybe?)


1. Maps                                                   (covering legenda, mapping systems, features, contours, type of maps, obtaining maps, purposes, etc)
2, Compass                                             (types, working knowledge, in essence this is a limited topic)
3. Usage of map & compass together     (covering different north, declination)
4. Celestial or environmental navigation (principles, daytime, nighttime)
5. Practical use of equipment                   (map folding, thumb, hold binocolars, brace position, orienting, marking)
6. Orienteering techniques                      (pacing attach points, collecting, catching, handrails principle, timing, etc, boxing, aiming off, etc)
7. Planning routes                                    (page 148-158 specifically as an example)
8. Location references                              (grid references)
9. Navigation in specific situations              (day/night, biomes/climates, urban, bad weather)
10. GNSS (....) basics
11. GPS equipment
12. Digital mapping

just a thought..

Just before I venture off again tomorrow - only Yorkshire this time - I thought it would be good to poll opinion for a few subject headers I have been thinking of:

Training tips - I have had quite a few emails from folk asking about different ways of delivering nav training, from groups as diverse as Cub Packs to Gold DofE and I know that some of you guys will have some great experience to bring to this too.

Trips - not as in slips and falls but journeys that we all make, from a day on a Munro to a mini-expedition.

I will create these if you like plus any other suggestions please.

Right, rucksack to pack!

[Skills4Survival]

I just call them compasses, what kind of additional features the thing has outside pointing "north" is not interesting, as long as you know which compass fits which context best and why. Whether you want to give the compass a different name because you use it for a different purpose (which is not true actually) is subjective and partially commercially driven.

little bit black and white maybe.

I call Silva Type compasses...Silva Type Compasses.

[Lyle Brotherton]

Wow Ivo this is comprehensive! Ihave not seen or used anything like this before and will visit thebrain.com to get my head around it - sounds great 

[Skills4Survival]

the free version has enough for the purpose I described. I am transferring all my information on survival, video's, docs..everything into such a brain, end of the year it will be the only thing I have, with powerfull search option in it (but you can have that on a PC as well). It is a start for writing a book on on survival.

thanks.

If you need any help or advice, try me.
Ivo

Wow Ivo this is comprehensive! Ihave not seen or used anything like this before and will visit thebrain.com to get my head around it - sounds great 

[Pete McK]

Lyle, what about Forum Meets where members arrange trips, share journeys etc?

[Barry G]

Visiting your wonderful county tomorrow to give a presentation - Black Sheep beer on the menu afterwards me thinks

I often meet an old guy, called Tom, aged 72, climbing up the mountain behind my house, and we stop and blether. One time I had been telling him about my recent travels and how I longed to be at home and he replied, very earnestly "A day away from Hawick is a day lost forever!"

Hey Lyle, rather than saying you often meet an "old guy", called Tom, you say "I often meet a gentleman named Tom, who has expierenced a great deal of things in his many years". You see, "old" Tom is several years younger than me.

Barry

[Skills4Survival]

lets introduce an ISO standard, then we have a real standard :-)