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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Maps are important. Seems obvious enough. But learning how to read them and use them to do work is the really important part.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to a new T-Rex talk. This episode is going to be about the importance of maps, which seems like an incredibly obvious thing. And don't worry, it's going to get even more painfully obvious. But the importance of maps is something that I feel like we have lost track of a little bit. I myself personally have in a lot of ways, which I will explain a little bit later. But a lot of folks have been talking on the Internet about land navigation, having the basic |
0:25.7 | capabilities of map reading encompasses. |
0:28.3 | And to be honest, I feel pretty ill-equipped to explain that, even at a fairly basic level, |
0:33.4 | when there are some fantastic resources out there from guys who really understand it inside and out. |
0:38.3 | And so I'm going to start this episode first with a recommendation that you look up redbeardtactical.de, |
0:45.5 | which is a group of, I believe, three gentlemen in Germany with military experience who are currently |
0:52.1 | producing really high quality materials, some of the best |
0:55.8 | informational materials that I know of on the internet. The only problem with their materials is |
1:00.4 | that they are primarily on Instagram. So if you're not on Instagram, good for you, but unfortunately |
1:06.0 | you are missing out on. Red Beard Tactical. They do have a Patreon page and they're publishing |
1:10.2 | more and more stuff |
1:11.3 | to their Patreon page. So if you're not on Instagram, look up their Patreon page. They also have a |
1:16.9 | YouTube channel, but I'm not sure that they are focusing on that right now. So yeah, one of the best things on |
1:21.9 | Instagram, one of the few reasons to actually be on Instagram is probably redbeart tactical.de. |
1:27.5 | And of all places they actually publish a lot of their materials. to actually be on Instagram is probably red bear tactical.de. |
1:32.3 | And of all places, they actually publish a lot of their materials as stories. |
1:37.2 | And they have story archives on a whole bunch of just fascinating topics. |
1:43.8 | But land navigation, compass use, reading maps, really good stuff on all of these. Now, I have been doing a lot of research |
1:46.0 | on map related stuff recently, which kind of led me to record this episode, a whole bunch of |
1:52.6 | different stuff. And one of the things that I just want to encourage you guys to do is start |
1:57.8 | doing some research and learn this stuff. but more importantly, practically try it out |
2:02.6 | and actually begin experimenting with map reading, navigation, and compasses, because it's harder |
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