I have a terrible sense of direction. In the car or on foot, I can get lost effortlessly unless I'm very familiar with where I am. I'm often amazed how well most people get around. I can always find ...

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

In the days since GPS was invented, many of us have lost the skill of navigating by a good old compass and map. As a family on the road in a 1991 Airstream Motorhome, we were early adapters to the GPS ...

Having a GPS-enabled device with a built-in digital compass in your pocket is nothing special these days, but there's still room for improvement when it comes to the usability of these functions. The ...

The North Star. This is found by using the sidewall of the Big Dipper’s bowl (on the right side) and lining up the two stars to form a line which points upward. Follow this up to the (faint) handle of ...