Help topics
- Purpose of the site
- Compass features
- Compass menu
- Compass or GPS - advantages and disadvantages
- Compass Test
- Draw a single or multi-legged route
- Extending the compass direction of travel arrow
- False readings when using a compass
- Fine Tuning the Set Compass
- Getting started with Set Compass
- Google Maps projection
- GPS or Compass - pros and cons for navigation
- Grid references test
- How to use a compass
- Import Google Map routes
- Latitude and longitude positions: degrees, minutes and seconds
- Magnetic declination or variation
- Magnetic declination or variation adjustment
- Magnetic declination or variation calculation
- Map projections
- Map reading
- Map reading skills test
- Menu
- Moving the Set Compass
- My Google Map Compass Routes
- Negative magnetic declination or variation
- New Features
- North: different types
- North on Google Maps
- Ordnance Survey Compass
- Ordnance Survey maps integration
- Ordnance Survey map projection
- Ordnance Survey map symbols
- Panning and Zooming with Google Maps
- Positive magnetic declination or variation
- Print Map Function
- Route drawing
- Route Information Display
- Safety
- Save and Store Set Compass Google Map Routes
- Single leg or multi-legged routes?
- Test your compass reading skills
- Tips
- Types of bearings
- Updates
- User Guide
- Watch as Compass
- What is a compass?
- What type of compass is used on the site?
- Zooming with Google Maps
What are the features of a compass?
- 1. The base plate mounting of the compass, with a ruler for measuring scale.
- 2. The compass housing contains the magnetic needle and has the points of the compass printed on a circular, rotating bezel.
- 3. The compass needle floats on liquid so it can rotate freely, the red end should always point to magnetic north.
- 4. Orienting lines fixed within the compass housing and designed to be aligned with the vertical grid lines on a map. Half the lines are coloured red to indicate north.
- 5. Orienting arrow fixed within the compass housing, aligned to north on the housing.
- 6. The index line fixed within the outer edge of the compass housing as an extension of the direction of travel arrow. It marks the bearing you set by rotating the compass housing.
- 7. Magnifier for detailed map reading.
- 8. The direction of travel arrow shows the direction that you want to travel along or the bearing you are taking. It is fixed parallel to the sides of the base plate and aligned with the fixed index line on the edge of the compass housing (number 6).
- 9. Compass scale displayed along the edge of the base plate so you can measure distances on maps.
- 10. Luminous strip to assist navigation at night.
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