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  2. Silva compass - Wikipedia

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    Silva Field baseplate compass on a map. Silva Sweden AB is an outdoors products company that sells handheld compasses and other navigational equipment including GPS tools, mapping software, aircraft altimeters, and marine navigation tools.

  3. Brunton compass - Wikipedia

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    A Brunton compass, properly known as the Brunton Pocket Transit, is a precision compass made by Brunton, Inc. of Riverton, Wyoming. The instrument was patented in 1894 by Canadian-born geologist David W. Brunton. [ 1 ]

  4. Brunton, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Brunton often included UTM and map scales with these compasses for U.S. standard 1:24,000 and 1:62,500 USGS topographic maps. The Model 9030 Trailbuster was intended to replicate the popular Boy Scout Trailblazer pocket compass discontinued by Taylor Instrument Co. The 9030 omitted the usual acrylic baseplate in order to minimize bulk (it ...

  5. Compass - Wikipedia

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    A modern military compass, with included sight device for aligning. A compass is a device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation. It commonly consists of a magnetized needle or other element, such as a compass card or compass rose, which can pivot to align itself with magnetic north.

  6. Osborne Fire Finder - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Dispatchers at a central facility used a compass rose to mark lines of position from each reporting tower onto a large map to quickly find where the reported bearings intersect. Today, a more precise determination of a fire location can be made by the use of a single Fire Finder in conjunction with a digital elevation model (DEM). [4]

  7. Cammenga - Wikipedia

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    Cammenga is an outdoors products company, known chiefly for producing navigation equipment under contract for United States Armed Forces.They are the official supplier of the M-1950 lensatic field compass issued to U.S. Army and Marine Corps infantry and artillery units.

  8. Navigational instrument - Wikipedia

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    Charts are maps of the areas to be navigated with details specific to the marine environment. Computing aids: used in the necessary mathematical calculations. Today electronic computers or calculators are used. Other traditional aids used included tables (trigonometric, logarithms, etc.) and slide rules.

  9. Points of the compass - Wikipedia

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    32-point compass rose. The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography.A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each separated by 90 degrees, and secondarily divided by four ordinal (intercardinal) directions—northeast, southeast, southwest, and ...

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