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These pages have actually moved to Learn-Orienteering.org,
but I'm experiencing problems that I hope will be resolved soon. In
the meantime, all the content will be available here.
My main motivation for writing these pages is to let people have the
same nice experiences I have had when I have been, well,
nowhere... Places you see just by coincidence. The compass is an
indispensable tool to find your way home, or to go nowhere.
This tutorial is intended for individuals and non-profit
organizations, and may be printed out and used free of charge as long
as my name is on it.
I hope these pages will help people enjoy and learn more about our
beautiful earth.
When you are going to use this tutorial, it is
essential that you have a compass in your hand. If you are teaching a
class of kids, they should each have a compass, or at least have
compasses with them.
Then you have to use it. First, go out in your backyard. Well, you'll
need a place covered by a map. Then try it out, on just a short
distance, hundred meters or yards or so. Then go for greater and
greater challenges, and soon, you'll hopefully be able to travel
safely in unfamiliar terrain.
Credibility on the Internet is a growing problem. Here's a few words about the author of this tutorial.
There are a few people on the net I would like to thank, and in particular Denzil Broadhurst for helping me with my language.
Unfortunately, I don't have time to answer many questions these days,
but if you have access to the USENET, you could try the newsgroup rec.sport.orienteering.
Other languages:
These pages has been translated to other languages:
- To Portuguese by Paulo Marcondes:
- A second translation to Portuguese by Marcos Masagão
Ribeiro
- To German by Peter Gierlach of the DF3KT:
There exists orienteering-tutorials in other languages as well. The
below are a bit inspired by my pages:
Links
The internet is full of pages that only contains links to other pages,
that again contains links to other pages. These pages is intended to
give you the information you are looking for, not the links. So read
the above. Explaining how to read a map is a very complex issue, and
none of the sites below explains it fully. Maybe you should try asking a
human? Nevertheless, I have a few relevant links:
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