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They taught us to triangulate using pencil and ruler, but no one has time for that when it's starting to get dark.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
All I've done so far is read guax's link on the coordinate system, but I think the intended workflow goes like this: 1. Plot the point where you currently are on the map. 2. Flag that point; you only get two Grease Pencil Points, but you need to remember this forever. 3. Plot the point you want to get to. Flag that one too. (You'll need to clear the grease pencil in order to do this. Flag your location before you do.…
>> I'm surprised they give you the option to move forward deterministically; that's not actually a thing that humans operating outside can do. Absent distant landmarks?
By the way you can run the games locally. Just download all files.
For the forest game you would have a local directory:
├── Build
│ ├── Build_7_30_F.asm.code.unityweb
│ ├── Build_7_30_F.asm.framework.unityweb
│ ├── Build_7_30_F.asm.memory.unityweb
│ ├── Build_7_30_F.data.unityweb
│ ├── Build_7_30_F.json
│ └── UnityLoader.js
└── index.html
python3 -m http.server
I did the Duke of Edinburgh bronze silver and gold when I was a kid, back before smart phones. Only one person on the team could reliably navigate, and he was mostly just basing his assessment on our position using compass and tree line. They taught us to triangulate using pencil and ruler, but no one has time for that when it's starting to get dark.
I was a military land nav instructor (although not for the US military) and this was one of our biggest challenges, especially once smart phones become common. People would consider position fixing to be an unbearable waste of time and would inevitably waste hours of time and effort because of it.
I did the Duke of Edinburgh bronze silver and gold when I was a kid, back before smart phones. Only one person on the team could reliably navigate, and he was mostly just basing his assessment on our position using compass and tree line. They taught us to triangulate using pencil and ruler, but no one has time for that when it's starting to get dark.
> They taught us to triangulate using pencil and ruler, but no one has time for that when it's starting to get dark. I was a military land nav instructor (although not for the US military) and this was one of our biggest challenges, especially once smart phones become common. People would consider position fixing to be an unbearable waste of time and would inevitably waste hours of time and effort because of it.
Can highly recommend orienteering racing if this seems like your kind of thing
The orienteers I've known have been some of the brightest and fittest people I've ever met (going to Cambridge, Oxford), doing all sorts of interesting things, and are some of the best runners you can find. One of my closest orienteering friends was disappointed in running sub-2:40 in his first marathon.
usarmy.jble.tradoc.mbx.eustis-tboc-dtl-helpdesk@mail.mil
As another commenter suggested, orienteering is great as a sport/running variation of this. Orienteers are some of the brightest and fittest people I know.