Sentence examples for maps and compasses from inspiring English sources

Like them, central bankers lack reliable maps and compasses.

The game resembles an earlier game called letterboxing, which shuns yuppie toys for the romance of maps and compasses.

Flying only in the dark, they had no parachutes, guns, radios or radar, only maps and compasses.

"We have seen people who have solely relied on GPS technology but were not using common sense or maps and compasses, and it leads them astray," said Kyle Patterson, a spokesman for Rocky Mountain National Park, just outside Denver.

Wearing hand-me-down men's uniforms and consulting only maps and compasses for direction, the lethal female combatants, dubbed "Night Witches" by the enemy, terrorized German encampments in three-plane formations, dropping more than 23,000 tons of bombs over the course of 30,000 missions.

By the time we've stowed away our camping equipment, cooking utensils, food, clothes, maps and compasses, helmets and flares, sun-cream, the all-important flask of whisky and two days' water supplies, and I have squeezed myself into the cockpit in the middle, I can't imagine how this skinny little craft will float, let alone convey me though the wild waters of south-west Wales.

Trekking, mountain biking, canoeing, climbing, trail running and map-and-compass navigation are all put to the test as teams of two to four people -- typically both men and women -- search for hidden checkpoint flags.

That is a good enough reason to ditch the 10-mile, map-and-compass bushwhack to Upper Paradise Lake, on the Kenai Peninsula, and pay for the stunning floatplane ride from Moose Pass or Seward.

We have mentioned this already in relation to the use of the sun as a heading indicator in the map-and-compass and mosaic map models of navigation.

In summary, although the map-and-compass and mosaic map concepts both definitively require compass information to set an initial course, there is no necessary reason why compass information must also be used to steer that course.

The map-and-compass model (originally Kramer, 1950) has been described as a two-step process involving a 'map step' determining the home direction and a 'compass step' locating the home direction (Wiltschko & Wiltschko, 2009).