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From landscapes steeped in history, littered with footprints and waterways for freshwater fishing, to winding plains, sunburnt regions and pioneering trails, a paper map often trumps electronic gadgets as the ultimate outback tracker.

While a GPS device is the most popular means of navigation, a printed map will never lose signal, malfunction, or run out of battery. Whether it’s cross-referencing your destination with two fingers tracing grid lines, or tracking your journey with distance markers—sometimes the old-fashioned approach is the most foolproof when it comes to finding our way.

00:00 – Introduction
00:20 – Paper Maps vs. GPS Devices
00:42 – Atlases
01:04 – Printed cards
01:43 – Legend
02:01 – Scale
02:36 – Road types
03:03 – Symbols
03:22 – Gridlines: Cross-references to locate destinations
05:05 – Other considerations
05:37 – Summary

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