Packages to Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and BFPO addresses are sent by First Class Royal Mail or International Parcel Force unless otherwise specified. A valuable piece of kit you will not want to forget when embarking on your next expedition adventure. Calculate the distance of your course so you can tailor your journey to the time you have available so you can get on with enjoying your favourite activities when you arrive. A well-planned journey begins in the comfort of your own home and leaves you time to enjoy the trip once you are actually out in the wilderness.

A must for anyone who does walking, cycling and especially great for people doing expaditions or Duke of Endingburgh. Three Points of the Compass has taken a closer look at some particular makes and models of map measurers, including the Silva and Harvey measures mentioned above. The cheapest will do the same job as the most expensive gold plated measurer ever made, if not necessarily to the same degree of accuracy. The extra feature of timing and distance is not really of huge use when variable terrain is being navigated. The card gauge is made of high quality metal and plastic, which is strong, wear-resistant, rainproof and durable.

You run a little wheel along a route, a path, a road, a river, a line on a drawing, then either read off the result or measure against a standard.

In recent years however, as digital mapping comes to the fore, they have very much fallen out of fashion. Set it according to your map scale and it measures your planned route in kilometers, miles or nautical miles. Daily stages linked together with the number of days of the trip, should be equivalent to the distance you want to cover, to reach your goal in time. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The Silva Map Measurer Plus worked well for four years and two months before failing to measure accurately. I use this a lot, really an excellent tool, but the cross marker can sometimes be really hard to spot on the map, especially in full screen mode. L'unico neo rispetto ad un curvimetro analogico è che ha una rotella un po' troppo ampia e quindi sentieri/confini/fiumi troppo arzigolati non li pesca perfettamente. I am one of a seemingly dying breed who still likes, appreciates and takes hard copy paper maps on trail.

Speak to the location you are wishing to ship to and get their precise address and, location within the address, the name of the person to contact as well as a valid phone number for them. These flexible and stretch resistant measures are good enough as a rough indicator of distance while on trail.The measure distance tool is a simple way of finding the distance between two or more points on a map. It is only recently that Three Points of the Compass stopped using a simple little map measure for route planning, though my fascination with them has never gone away. However, i may be wrong but perhaps always-on helps preserve the life of the screen for much longer where i like others experienced the failure of the screen to work after about 6 years of use. All of our women's clothing is shown in UK sizes but many of our brands use US sizing too, for reference we have included a rough conversion. The military use them, sailors use them, motorists use them, town planners and draughtsmen use them, and still, just a few walkers use them.