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esday1

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He'll dazzle you with terms like "Code Red."
Even if you don't get a good chance to go orienteering, getting used to the way contour maps work is probably helpful, especially if you can look at a map immediately and know what a feature looks like, rather than trying to work it out in your head. This site is pretty cool:
http://terraserver.microsoft.com
You can download either aerial photos or contour topo maps from this site. I suggest you look up a few contour maps of famous places that are slightly more hilly than Florida. I also recently got a bit of mapping software (DeLorme Topo USA 4.0) that could be helpful, although it's a little bit pricy. The program gives you side-by-side two-dimensional topographic (contour) maps with three-dimensional angled images of the land features (with contours printed on them), so it's a pretty good way to get a sense of how contour lines translate to geographic features. It's pretty addictive if you're a map geek like I am.
Here's the site for the mapping software:
http://www.delorme.com/topousa/default.asp
 
perchul

perchul

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Yeah terraserver is cool, fooled around with it a bunch in some of the Physical Geography classes I've had. Just to clarify I'm actually quite good with maps and I even have a small collection, but just concerned about whether I need to be proficient at the whole orienteering system upon arrival to OCS...now I plan to be anyways, but does anyone have a clue about whether things of this sort or expected

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