route - photo recognition - the Long Myndd

another worthwhile and interesting navigation exercise is

the visualisation of points on a map

to make this exercise

plan a short walk, then produce a route card for it. Go out and take photographs of the checkpoints on your route card, including the start and finish points.

Use either a full size map of the area or small areas around each check point that have been cut out and stuck to card.

Give each student the map(s) photographs, and route card and the match them.

Aber falls, Snowdonia

an easy example of this would be
for a student to find this waterfall on a map of the carneddau.

The waterfall is not marked by a symbol
but the river is marked,
and the words "Aber Falls"
appear on both the
1~ 50000 and the 1 ~ 25000
scale maps

using

O/S Landranger no. 115 ~ LoSnowdon
extract below

add long myndd map

Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service.
Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey

www.nigelspencer.co.uk

Use these nine pictures of the Long Myndd to locate the nine points on the route card below
picture A	picture B	picture C
picture D	picture E	picture F
picture G	picture H	picture I

Leg	Description	instruction	Grid reference	Height
Start	car park	from your car continue to ridge	445 944	240 m
1	ridge	follow ridge to fence	444 948	380 m
2	fence corner	at fence walk north along footpath	443 953	375 m
3	footpath	where path crosses green lane turn west	443 955	375 m
4	green lane	continue along lane until summit	434 967	460 m
5	trig point	pass the summit continue to road turn east	415 944	516 m
6	road junction	at jutction take the road SE	424 944	470 m
7	valley	take path south along Townbrook valley	429 943	455
End	small reservoir	continue to reservoir	447 948	250

To make this excecise easier use the O/S maps
Landranger 137 (Ludlow & Wenlock Edge) or Outdoor Leisure 910 (church Stretton)

visualising a location on a map