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*_I saw this once in a "war movie" in the '80's._* *_Or: was it a "action/militia movie"?_* *_I can't remember which one, it was done in the background, not explained, but the flipping was done later in the movie as well._* *_999/1,000 viewers would not have cached that; I remembered seeing that all just now._*
Thinking the military is smart and creative and doesn't make things harder on themselves it's the most backward ass thing I've ever heard. There is no difference between stupidity and bravery that's why I'm not a part of the military
The should teach this in scouting so kids know how to get around without using GPS! I really hope they didn't abandon teaching kids how to use a map because of GPS. I would have loved knowing this when I was a kid back in the '70s and '80s!
@@martabachynsky8545 I don’t know what Scouting teaches currently, but basic map reading and navigation are part of the curriculum my daughter teaches annually to her fourth grade classes.
I definitely remember the importance of doing this as a helicopter pilot, it had to clip to my knee board, flip the map to get back home maybe. Being organized is always critical. Thank you!
Fantastic. Way better than the hiker's way. As a fellow heli pilot I admit I've never seen this way before. Pretty tough to fold a hiker's map with the cyclic and collective in hand.
@@alisasmith8272 The point is that you can't. just fold it that way without the cut and try to go to look at each quadrant without making it larger than a quadrant or significant effort pulling the ridge across the center horizontal fold.
@@najroe - I suppose that would work. I was thinking that both maps wouldn't be along similar grid lines, but upon further thought, it seems that wouldn't matter.
@@najroe I suspect the "water resistant material" is simply rag paper, as employed in many applications intended for outdoor use, like a surveyor's notebook (standard yellow hardback pad from York Survey Supplies) that you can write on in a Monsoon so long as you're using a 2B pencil not a biro...
USA here , thank you for your service not only to your country, but your service benefits the entire free world with all of Britannia as our ally. 🫡🇺🇸🇬🇧
Back in the Corps I was a rigger who used to make map bags for my pilots. As a result I got to see how they setup their maps. Years later as a sales manager (way before GPS) I used maps for my territory. Folding em up like this I quickly analyzed divided and conquered my territory becoming first in sales and earnings. Military skill morphed into practical civilian skills.
@@PigeonSlayer you are correct pigeon man. The format herein won’t allow for extensive elaboration. Much more went in to making me a success in sales, the maps however were key. It allowed me to maximize my daily sales calls. Prior to Google maps I physically collated, coded, and plotted my dealer locations from A-D. It’s a bit more involved but all I learned drove me there. At the top of the list is knowing the Lord Jesus Christ. Among others things God promised I’d be the head and not the tail. Lived it my whole life. Watch out for the pigeon droppings.😎
This brought back some great memories! During the ‘90s we used to go on three to four motorcycle trips each year and I came up with a similar folding technique so I could keep a full size map readily accessible in my jacket pocket, turning and refolding as we traveled to new areas. I still have most of them. Those were amazing trips
Another thing a few of us used to do in the army was to work out the magnetic variation and use a highlighter to mark it on the map with a ruler in parallel lines a couple of centimetres apart. Then course plotting bearings can be taken directly off the map, and resections from back bearings can be made directly with the compass onto the map.
Figuring out magnetic variation is madness when using the map for army purposes (unless you are a pilot or similar and cross huge distances). I get it for navigation in the navy being really precise but isn’t it good enough for infantry „generally this direction we will know when we are there“?
@@alexanderzippel8809 It depends where in the world you are. The local variation here is about 26 deg East. If you don't take that into account you're not going to get to where you want to be.
@@mirandahotspring4019 damm thats a big variation. Fair enough then. Where I live the local variation is between 3-4 degrees east. So you can basically ignore it (on land)
@@alexanderzippel8809 When I was in the army we were in Malaysia doing jungle tropical warfare training and the variation there was only about half a degree west so everyone ignored it. But most didn't notice there was a grid variation six deg west as well. Quite a few patrols took a lot longer to get back than they had anticipated. ALWAYS read the margin notes on the map!
I have always wondered how they kept such a nice pristine small map that can be handled with one hand. The second I can get my hands on a water-proof map pouch the right size I'm doing this to all my maps.
You can buy sheets of clear plastic, the kind that is used for map pouches and for windows in tents and stuff. It is not very expensive. Sow the pouch on a showing machine and tape the seam with clear packing tape. You can also weld the seam with a flattening iron. Use a baking sheet over the plastic, and it won't stick to the iron. Extend the pouch about two inches to one side and leave it open. This side is then folded over or rolled a few turns and kept close with a sturdy binder clip. If you press the fold and heat it gently, it takes on that shape and want to stay closed I have made custom waterproof pouches for maps, phones and tablets this way.
I can recommend the Rothco Canvas M-51 Engineers Field Bag. The opening flap on the bag has clear plastic underneath, so you open the bag and there's your map tucked into it
This is another great example for why I love certain aspects of the military. A very cool, useful tip that bleeds perfectly into everyday life. Road maps or hiking/camping application confirmed. Thanks!
Thanks. More of the art of keeping found. Pilots, in the Viet Nam era, used what they called a flip strip chart. It was series of maps that showed the course of their mission. Once the maps were laid out, they were glued (rubber cement) together a strip as wide as a kneeboard is long would be cut, showing the course (or cut then glued, whichever was easiest). Then it was folded into an "accordion" with "pages" as wide as the kneeboard. The back (blank) sides of the touching "pages" were glued together so they could be flipped as the course was flown.
At least as of 10 years ago, the Navy was still training their fighter aircrews to make strip charts in this manner. We’d make the cover of the book out of a manilla folder. Rubber cement is fun!
Non-military trips pre-GPS, you could get these from AAA for travel. They were called "Trip Tiks" and would be spiral bound at the top so you could "flip through" them as you made your way to your destination. Very handy.
Outstanding, I loved land navigation. Technology fails at the worst time, so Land Nav and Terrain Association, I'm sure, is considered old but should be trained. I wish I had known about that folding technique when I walked for a living.
I still teach compass use and map reading to the Boy Scouts for the Orienteering merit badge. Tech is good, but paper maps don't need batteries. Hike on!
Back in the day, at Army Flight School we built map books of the entire flying AO -- something like 8 map sheets wide by six map sheets tall -- and compiled it into an "Australian Fold" map book and then plotted all of the wires/hazards, remote landing areas, all of the ops graphics on it. It was a couple of weeks of work hanging out in the flight ops planning room and a lot of paste. We made them for operations outside the US as well.
Ditto. I made an Australian fold map book of S Korea from Seoul to the DMZ and from the China Sea to half way across the Peninsula. Left it with another pilot when I PCSd. 5 or 6 years later I met a young Warrant Officer fresh from Korea and the first thing he told me was "I have your map book!"
@@steventraum5203 that’s cool! When were you in SK? I flew Kiowa Warriors in The ROK in ‘99 and ‘00 out of Camp Stanton with 4-7 Cav. And, I was the map custodian for the air troops :)
In Germany, there's a map manufacturer offering some of their paper maps in their "legendary Falk folding" (German: "Falk-Faltung"). Which is pretty similar. I always loved those as you could get to any point on the map by simply flipping over the right flaps without the need to unfold the whole map. Very convenient!
Andrew - I have to give you kudos as a teacher. I have been following your channel (I wrote "following you" at first but that just looked creepy) ;-P and watching (almost) every video for a very long time and you never cease to impress me with HOW you teach. We all know that you are not reinventing the wheel but are simply (mostly) sharing with us what you have learned.... but you do so clearly, concisely, and most importantly you give us the reason WHY we do things that helps us to remember them when we need to recall stuff. Just dropping a quick comment to say thank you.
Ingenious. 😮Worked with maps all of my adult life as a military aviator. The easiest way is to not confuse yourself. Fold map in half then concertina. All map available, no stupid cuts.
@@kieferngruen yes. Fold the map, along the longest axis, in half. You then have a long thin map. Fold the map left then right then left until it is a concertina. You have a map that you have full access to. Used this concept to cover large areas whilst in a cockpit. Not perfect for cockpit use but you can always find a grid.,
This is going to be so handy this summer on a 7000km roadtrip! As always, you give precise, clear instructions that make sense. Thank you for all these videos.
This is a great hack. I always hated getting my map out, opening it up & then folding it back just to cover the next stage in a raging wind. This has other applications for condensing instructions or notes that follow a sequence (like radio operating manuals) that can then be stowed in a smaller plastic cover & left open at the most relevant page.
@@mirandahotspring4019 I am sure they can just not come up with anything yet we are still waiting !! By the way show me one good idea females feminists like you have come up with !! What women actually want when they want "equality" is : - The societal rights “privilege” of men -The social " authority" of a man -The societal rights and privilege of women - The responsibility of neither a man or a woman -The sexual freedom of a wild animal without judgment - The accountability of a child (preferably a baby girl child) - They just want the best of both worlds, worst of none; -They want everything for nothing In short they want a position and role of superiority, without the hassle of responsibility and / or accountability for that position and role Imagine how silly it would sound if an adult male said, “I’m a strong independent man.” Women want to be patted on the back for simply doing shit that men think is just part of being a human. The "equality rights " this type of special privilege is something western world females feel entitled to this special privilege of being able to have a man thrown out of his job and or passed-over for his promotion and having a man canceled solely based on groundless accusations of whatever any female says, without proof or evidence is astonishing !!! And if the man says anything about the jobs going to a lesser experience and less qualified females. and question why top job was given to a female why those females are receiving those jobs and getting special treatment under the umbrella of BUZZ WORDS such as " inclusivity diversity and equity " he is a male pig I don't see any females feminists shouting about inclusivity diversity and equity " For jobs as : Coal mining industry (96.2% men ) Electrical High power lineman ( 94.7% men ) Sewer Cleaners industry ( 98.7% men ) Garbage Collector industry (95.0% men) Oil Rig Roughneck job ( 95.0% men ) Portable toilet cleaner industry ( 98.2 % men ) Deep sea Crab fisherman industry ( 89.9%men) Landfill operators ( 89.2% men) Plumbers (96.5% men) Railroad engineers (95.8% men ) Gutter cleaner industry ( 90.9% men ) Construction workers (93.8% men) ECT ECT ECT .--- I CAN GO ON AND ON BUT YOU GET MY PONT !! And lets be truthful MOST IF NOT ALL of the few % of the jobs referred to above with women in those industries are not working in the dirty and heavy jobs in those industries they are working in Admin , human resources, management portions ect ect
I do surveying and tend to carry around large sheets of paper. This fold is something I've seen before but never got it down...until now. I appreciate your service and all that you do. Please keep the videos coming. Best channel in my opinion.
Cool video. I love how attention to detail is in the Ranger DNA. Also noticed you highlighted the northings and eastings which is another easy tip to make reading the map easier.
This will definitely come in handy for me when kayaking or sailing on small boats. Here I thought the only way not to have a map flapping in the wind would be to go electronic. Thank you so much for this video!
Fantastic video. I keep an atlas of my state in my vehicle and I keep a large map of my specific area in whatever ruck/pack I always have handy for the season. Thank you Sir!
Because civvies don't need to know this information since they rarely have to navigate using physical maps in this modern era. Still a good idea for such skills to be taught. It's probably one of the most essential life skills a person should know to survive an event.
Get out of the city and do some backcountry backpacking. Plenty of "Civvies" know how to use a map, cut and fold a map, navigate, orienteer, plan a route.
I actually use a similar technique to make what was once called the "hipster PDA" - essentially an 8-page book that can be created from a single sheet of paper. It's created almost exactly like the map, but with 8 cells instead of 16.
Thank you so much for explaining why maps I get from the Army Surplus all have cuts! I thought all of them were defective. Now I know how to use them. Thank you very much, sir!
Been doing this for years to make mini notebooks. Same folds, same cut, but you can fold the thing back over itself to make it completely stable and turn the booklet it makes back over to read/use the 'inside' pages. Very helpful for keeping things organized once you get the hang of the reversing pages. Cool to see another use of it, and extra impressive for the usage in military situations.
in sweden we have a sport call orienteering where people run around the woods with maps to try get through terrain from A to B to C in the quickest way possible just following a map! its pretty fun!
For some years back in my youth (the 1950s) I was a navigator in a rally team. I learned to cut and fold my (UK) Ordinance Survey, 1" to 1 mile maps like this for easy handling while being bounced around in the seat of small cars (Minis, MGs, AH Sprites, etc.) I would steam and iron my maps before cutting to ensure they were absolutely flat. I would take great care to align the cut and folds, adding Scotch tape along certain edges and folds to ensure details could not be lost. I did the same for the more details 4" to 1 mile OS maps we used for hiking the dales and moors of Britain. In that situation, the maps could be folded small enough to fit in a dry pocket. For Dartmoor, where it was always very wet, I'd cover the entire maps surface with wide scotch tape to waterproof them. This blog took a lot of time and words to explain a simple process. Just try it. It's very easy.
This was magnificant, I have worked with marine charts and noticed that some of them have this cut on them, obviously deliberate just never knew why, I assumed it had something to do with storing them. But seeing the whole system, how spectacularly simple yet ingenious. Brilliant video.
Very slick! I learned something very valuable today! I've been using maps as a USAF targeteer for 35 years and never came across this technique. I wish we had this method for our A-10 pilots when they flew with a stack of 1:50s in their map kit! I'll be using this technique when I lead Jeep trips this year! Thank you for sharing and so clearly explaining! (SMSgt, Retired)
Nice informative video! As a 40+ someone from the former Eastern bloc, we had maps instead of GPS (or even offline maps on PCs for looking up if we went somewhere). I recall GPS receivers and car solution were next to unusable in the early 2000's so I always went for the map and wrote an itinerary for a longer journey. But printed maps in the 80's and 90's were sold pre-cut. When I was a child I never understood why. :D
@@Octopussyist I referred to the everyday use of the word GPS that is thought of as a map combined with a GPS receiver, centering the map on the GPS position. I wasn't referring to a GPS receiver giving only coordinates. You can still use a map without a GPS to identify your position based on the landmarks read from the map or based on knowing the exact location before starting navigating based on the map. Younger people may have no idea about the difference between the two (GPS-based navigation map vs GPS receiver giving only coordinates) so I did not bother elaborating. Thanks for pointing out.
45 years ago I learned how to do this in the Cub Scouts, orienteering. Then I became a surveyor, mapmaking and using charts plotted on huge A0 sheets, and immediately learned that you can get the same result without having to cut and weaken the chart if you simply fold it correctly! Then it remains far more resilient to refolding outdoors in the wind...
I was an FO in the Army. I had a bunch of maps folded, cut up, all kinds of stuff. For civilians considering some of these things, remember that I had the luxury of access to an unlimited number of maps. I also had the ability to get custom maps printed out for me (I made some friends in Brigade S2). Remember that cuts and creases may make it difficult to draw accurate straight lines across those creases/cuts. Whatever techniques you use will be highly dependent on your particular situation.
A road travel map I bought many years ago (generic laminated thing like you'd keep in the glove box) came pre-cut like this. Never knew what it was for. Very surprising just how much versatility you get out of making one small cut like that. Thanks!
Hi, french army vet here. This is an interesting trick! By us, it was forbidden to cut or damage military maps, since they were to be returned to the Company's sergeant-chief after use, and reused. We had to fold them in a way that the correct portion of terrain was shown, then we put them into plastic sheets. But actually french military maps are much smaller than american ones, and fit perfectly in the field map holder... :))
Hello from romulus Michigan brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for taking us on your adventures through the woods and GOD-BLESS
These kinds of videos are so helpful for when I'm working on my book. Its a military fiction set in a fantasy setting so it helps to know these sorts of tricks I have have characters do to breath .ore life into them. Thank you
My dad was in the army (101st) and taught me this map trick for my job as a district manager for a cable company. (Pre-Google Maps & smart phones). I had to work all over the city alone in my car, and being pulled over to read and unfold maps was a dangerous proposition. I could hold the map in one hand and be looking at it with both hands on the wheel.
I was ready for a stupid and complicated "trick", but this is actually pretty simple, clever and makes dealing with the map way easier. Will use next time I'm hiking by map!
Thank you, Sir. Just learned something new for K-9 SAR Rescue. Trying to copy USGS maps to a printer is a task and in keeping Grid lines in proper order, etc and using USGS maps in it’s full form is just way too much out in the field and a hassle. We use the slotted see-thru plastic Grid Readers from “MapTools” using various compass’s. Again, Thank you for the heads up. It’s much appreciated, Sir!
Absolutely brilliant,, thank you so much,, wish I'd learned this years ago,, 😂,, so many mountains climbed, with a map blowing in the wind, and getting soaking wet,, 😱,,, 👍🤙🤙
man, I have not cut a map in 10 years now...I remember making map books with 20+ map sheets in Germany--watching the 2LTs learn to use a map that stretched 200x200 kms was always a hoot. LOL
Cool trick bro, never knew this one, but its one for the toolbox. An you are the only one I've ever seen that showed something like this, along with your map reading vids. Thx for the vid Andy
In the Cav when we use to patrol the East German and Czech borders we made Mapbooks that folded the same way except ours were full map sheets because we moved too fast and this method was too slow.These are great for foot patrols. In Desert Storm we didn't use maps. We used an acetated blank sheet with grid lines with no numbers. We added the numbers on the acetate and renumbered them as we ran off the map.
I recognize the area in that map. I’m a helicopter pilot stationed there right now…Great video! I love seeing such effective modifications done so elegantly.
From a UK civvie that loves doing Airsoft milsims, this is brilliant and it's going to save my mobile phone from getting shot up now I can use a proper map instead! Thank you!
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*_I saw this once in a "war movie" in the '80's._*
*_Or: was it a "action/militia movie"?_*
*_I can't remember which one, it was done in the background, not explained, but the flipping was done later in the movie as well._*
*_999/1,000 viewers would not have cached that; I remembered seeing that all just now._*
Liked because Ninja Turtles. I just played a TMNT game. The Ninja are speaking to us.
this was fn awesome!!!
Did you say acid tape?
When you expect some tedious trick to do and you get something THIS straightforward and simple.
Brilliant.
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Thinking the military is smart and creative and doesn't make things harder on themselves it's the most backward ass thing I've ever heard. There is no difference between stupidity and bravery that's why I'm not a part of the military
The difference between what “life hack” meant that initially made it go viral and what it meant after it became a buzzword
Fantastic! All these years of re-re-refolding fire maps in windy conditions and now I learn this trick. Thanks!
The should teach this in scouting so kids know how to get around without using GPS! I really hope they didn't abandon teaching kids how to use a map because of GPS. I would have loved knowing this when I was a kid back in the '70s and '80s!
@@martabachynsky8545 I don’t know what Scouting teaches currently, but basic map reading and navigation are part of the curriculum my daughter teaches annually to her fourth grade classes.
@@martabachynsky8545 GOOD LUCK SOURCING PRINTED MAPS!
Better late than never....?
@@martabachynsky8545 Why are they mutually exclusive?
Nobody is navigating with just a lat/long, you still need to know how to read a map.
I definitely remember the importance of doing this as a helicopter pilot, it had to clip to my knee board, flip the map to get back home maybe. Being organized is always critical. Thank you!
Fantastic. Way better than the hiker's way. As a fellow heli pilot I admit I've never seen this way before. Pretty tough to fold a hiker's map with the cyclic and collective in hand.
ditto! I had all my maps cut to the size of the window in my flight suit knee!
what is the point cutting the map in middle? i can still do the flip without the cuts
We Aussie folded all our maps when flying
@@alisasmith8272 The point is that you can't. just fold it that way without the cut and try to go to look at each quadrant without making it larger than a quadrant or significant effort pulling the ridge across the center horizontal fold.
That is the sort of knowledge RUclips is made to share. Thank you Sir.
Many Swedish maps are printed on both sides and made on water resistant material (somewhat like if money and tyvek had an ofspring)
I have a 19th century map of Indochina that was printed as 64 5x8cm tiles then glued to silk.
For that, you'd have to have two copies of the map to use the method in the video.
@@cyberherbalist or just flip the map and fold the other way
@@najroe - I suppose that would work. I was thinking that both maps wouldn't be along similar grid lines, but upon further thought, it seems that wouldn't matter.
@@najroe I suspect the "water resistant material" is simply rag paper, as employed in many applications intended for outdoor use, like a surveyor's notebook (standard yellow hardback pad from York Survey Supplies) that you can write on in a Monsoon so long as you're using a 2B pencil not a biro...
Royal Air Force here , we did day and night navs but did not know this trick, will be using it on our next nav, thank you
USA here , thank you for your service not only to your country, but your service benefits the entire free world with all of Britannia as our ally. 🫡🇺🇸🇬🇧
Back in the Corps I was a rigger who used to make map bags for my pilots. As a result I got to see how they setup their maps. Years later as a sales manager (way before GPS) I used maps for my territory. Folding em up like this I quickly analyzed divided and conquered my territory becoming first in sales and earnings. Military skill morphed into practical civilian skills.
a physical map helped you "conquer" sales ? :D:D Doubt it was only thx to maps man.
@@PigeonSlayer truth is that he used to shoot his competitors.
That makes sense XD@@davidbroadfoot1864
@@davidbroadfoot1864 Hahaha, that’s hilarious!😎
@@PigeonSlayer you are correct pigeon man. The format herein won’t allow for extensive elaboration. Much more went in to making me a success in sales, the maps however were key. It allowed me to maximize my daily sales calls. Prior to Google maps I physically collated, coded, and plotted my dealer locations from A-D. It’s a bit more involved but all I learned drove me there. At the top of the list is knowing the Lord Jesus Christ. Among others things God promised I’d be the head and not the tail. Lived it my whole life. Watch out for the pigeon droppings.😎
I remember doing this back in the '60s and '70s but forgot how I was taught. Thanks for re-teaching me.
yeah old home week ... it is a great refresher ....
This solves my life long mystery of why our maps always had a slit in them!! 6 brothers & father were all military at one time or another… thank you!!
Instructions unclear, I was using Google maps and now my phone is broken
Google maps are shit.
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This brought back some great memories! During the ‘90s we used to go on three to four motorcycle trips each year and I came up with a similar folding technique so I could keep a full size map readily accessible in my jacket pocket, turning and refolding as we traveled to new areas. I still have most of them. Those were amazing trips
Another thing a few of us used to do in the army was to work out the magnetic variation and use a highlighter to mark it on the map with a ruler in parallel lines a couple of centimetres apart.
Then course plotting bearings can be taken directly off the map, and resections from back bearings can be made directly with the compass onto the map.
ty for you!
Figuring out magnetic variation is madness when using the map for army purposes (unless you are a pilot or similar and cross huge distances).
I get it for navigation in the navy being really precise but isn’t it good enough for infantry „generally this direction we will know when we are there“?
@@alexanderzippel8809 It depends where in the world you are. The local variation here is about 26 deg East. If you don't take that into account you're not going to get to where you want to be.
@@mirandahotspring4019 damm thats a big variation. Fair enough then. Where I live the local variation is between 3-4 degrees east. So you can basically ignore it (on land)
@@alexanderzippel8809 When I was in the army we were in Malaysia doing jungle tropical warfare training and the variation there was only about half a degree west so everyone ignored it. But most didn't notice there was a grid variation six deg west as well. Quite a few patrols took a lot longer to get back than they had anticipated. ALWAYS read the margin notes on the map!
I have always wondered how they kept such a nice pristine small map that can be handled with one hand. The second I can get my hands on a water-proof map pouch the right size I'm doing this to all my maps.
Why not make your own case as Andrew showed?
@@jeffcooper9363 Looking for one with a rating for kayaking
You can buy sheets of clear plastic, the kind that is used for map pouches and for windows in tents and stuff. It is not very expensive.
Sow the pouch on a showing machine and tape the seam with clear packing tape. You can also weld the seam with a flattening iron. Use a baking sheet over the plastic, and it won't stick to the iron.
Extend the pouch about two inches to one side and leave it open. This side is then folded over or rolled a few turns and kept close with a sturdy binder clip. If you press the fold and heat it gently, it takes on that shape and want to stay closed
I have made custom waterproof pouches for maps, phones and tablets this way.
I can recommend the Rothco Canvas M-51 Engineers Field Bag. The opening flap on the bag has clear plastic underneath, so you open the bag and there's your map tucked into it
You mean ziplock bags?
Damn, Andrew. I can honestly say I have not folded a map up l Iike that in 20 years. Thanks for the refresher coarse. Hooah!!!!
Same here.😅👍
This is another great example for why I love certain aspects of the military. A very cool, useful tip that bleeds perfectly into everyday life. Road maps or hiking/camping application confirmed.
Thanks!
Thanks. More of the art of keeping found.
Pilots, in the Viet Nam era, used what they called a flip strip chart. It was series of maps that showed the course of their mission. Once the maps were laid out, they were glued (rubber cement) together a strip as wide as a kneeboard is long would be cut, showing the course (or cut then glued, whichever was easiest). Then it was folded into an "accordion" with "pages" as wide as the kneeboard. The back (blank) sides of the touching "pages" were glued together so they could be flipped as the course was flown.
At least as of 10 years ago, the Navy was still training their fighter aircrews to make strip charts in this manner. We’d make the cover of the book out of a manilla folder.
Rubber cement is fun!
australian or banana fold. prepped many maps for different AOs . then calibrating finger to ground speeds.
#AmericansWillMeasureWithAnythingButTheMetricSystem
Yes, I'm also American :)
Was still using it in the early 80s.
Non-military trips pre-GPS, you could get these from AAA for travel. They were called "Trip Tiks" and would be spiral bound at the top so you could "flip through" them as you made your way to your destination. Very handy.
That cut and fold technique was really cool.
Outstanding, I loved land navigation. Technology fails at the worst time, so Land Nav and Terrain Association, I'm sure, is considered old but should be trained. I wish I had known about that folding technique when I walked for a living.
I still teach compass use and map reading to the Boy Scouts for the Orienteering merit badge.
Tech is good, but paper maps don't need batteries.
Hike on!
BTW, the Ninja Turtle pencil IS mil-spec.
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Too pointy for Marines. They have to use My Little Pony crayons.
This is brilliant. For years I have wondered about the optimal way to fold a map, and here it is.
Thank you for showing this ingenious tip with no fluff. Just pure knowledge and experience on display with excellent instruction.
Back in the day, at Army Flight School we built map books of the entire flying AO -- something like 8 map sheets wide by six map sheets tall -- and compiled it into an "Australian Fold" map book and then plotted all of the wires/hazards, remote landing areas, all of the ops graphics on it. It was a couple of weeks of work hanging out in the flight ops planning room and a lot of paste. We made them for operations outside the US as well.
Ditto. I made an Australian fold map book of S Korea from Seoul to the DMZ and from the China Sea to half way across the Peninsula. Left it with another pilot when I PCSd. 5 or 6 years later I met a young Warrant Officer fresh from Korea and the first thing he told me was "I have your map book!"
@@steventraum5203 that’s cool! When were you in SK? I flew Kiowa Warriors in The ROK in ‘99 and ‘00 out of Camp Stanton with 4-7 Cav. And, I was the map custodian for the air troops :)
@@daveb7408 I was at 2-2 AVN at Stanley as a Platoon Leader from '97-'98.
In Germany, there's a map manufacturer offering some of their paper maps in their "legendary Falk folding" (German: "Falk-Faltung"). Which is pretty similar. I always loved those as you could get to any point on the map by simply flipping over the right flaps without the need to unfold the whole map. Very convenient!
Andrew - I have to give you kudos as a teacher. I have been following your channel (I wrote "following you" at first but that just looked creepy) ;-P and watching (almost) every video for a very long time and you never cease to impress me with HOW you teach. We all know that you are not reinventing the wheel but are simply (mostly) sharing with us what you have learned.... but you do so clearly, concisely, and most importantly you give us the reason WHY we do things that helps us to remember them when we need to recall stuff. Just dropping a quick comment to say thank you.
Ingenious. 😮Worked with maps all of my adult life as a military aviator. The easiest way is to not confuse yourself. Fold map in half then concertina. All map available, no stupid cuts.
Can you explain?
@@kieferngruen yes. Fold the map, along the longest axis, in half. You then have a long thin map. Fold the map left then right then left until it is a concertina. You have a map that you have full access to. Used this concept to cover large areas whilst in a cockpit. Not perfect for cockpit use but you can always find a grid.,
Brilliant. As a civie with no military contacts and a passion for the outdoors, these tips are what keep me excited about your channel.
This is going to be so handy this summer on a 7000km roadtrip! As always, you give precise, clear instructions that make sense. Thank you for all these videos.
This is a great hack. I always hated getting my map out, opening it up & then folding it back just to cover the next stage in a raging wind. This has other applications for condensing instructions or notes that follow a sequence (like radio operating manuals) that can then be stowed in a smaller plastic cover & left open at the most relevant page.
the ingenuity of man never ceases to amaze me…
Thanks for sharing…
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Don't let the team down Cindy. Women can come up with good ideas too!
@@mirandahotspring4019 I am sure they can just not come up with anything yet we are still waiting !! By the way show me one good idea females feminists like you have come up with !!
What women actually want when they want "equality" is :
- The societal rights “privilege” of men
-The social " authority" of a man
-The societal rights and privilege of women
- The responsibility of neither a man or a woman
-The sexual freedom of a wild animal without judgment
- The accountability of a child (preferably a baby girl child)
- They just want the best of both worlds, worst of none;
-They want everything for nothing
In short they want a position and role of superiority, without the hassle of responsibility and / or accountability for that position and role
Imagine how silly it would sound if an adult male said, “I’m a strong independent man.” Women want to be patted on the back for simply doing shit that men think is just part of being a human.
The "equality rights " this type of special privilege is something western world females feel entitled to this special privilege of being able to have a man thrown out of his job and or passed-over for his promotion and having a man canceled solely based on groundless accusations of whatever any female says, without proof or evidence is astonishing !!! And if the man says anything about the jobs going to a lesser experience and less qualified females. and question why top job was given to a female why those females are receiving those jobs and getting special treatment under the umbrella of BUZZ WORDS such as " inclusivity diversity and equity " he is a male pig
I don't see any females feminists shouting about inclusivity diversity and equity "
For jobs as :
Coal mining industry (96.2% men )
Electrical High power lineman ( 94.7% men )
Sewer Cleaners industry ( 98.7% men )
Garbage Collector industry (95.0% men)
Oil Rig Roughneck job ( 95.0% men )
Portable toilet cleaner industry ( 98.2 % men )
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Landfill operators ( 89.2% men)
Plumbers (96.5% men)
Railroad engineers (95.8% men )
Gutter cleaner industry ( 90.9% men )
Construction workers (93.8% men)
ECT ECT ECT .---
I CAN GO ON AND ON BUT YOU GET MY PONT !!
And lets be truthful MOST IF NOT ALL of the few % of the jobs referred to above with women in those industries are not working in the dirty and heavy jobs in those industries they are working in Admin , human resources, management portions ect ect
@@mirandahotspring4019 She didnt say "the ingenuity of men" but "...man". Used like this it means mankind.
I do surveying and tend to carry around large sheets of paper. This fold is something I've seen before but never got it down...until now. I appreciate your service and all that you do. Please keep the videos coming. Best channel in my opinion.
Cool video. I love how attention to detail is in the Ranger DNA. Also noticed you highlighted the northings and eastings which is another easy tip to make reading the map easier.
This is such a neat map trick! I'm gonna use this in my future road trips.
Outstanding!!! I was never taught this during map training.
This will definitely come in handy for me when kayaking or sailing on small boats. Here I thought the only way not to have a map flapping in the wind would be to go electronic. Thank you so much for this video!
Major Andrew very good demonstration of this 🗺 map fold technique.👍🇺🇸
We weren't issued maps that large, we would put them in a big plastic map case and use grease pencils to write on them. This trick is blowing my mind!
Fantastic video. I keep an atlas of my state in my vehicle and I keep a large map of my specific area in whatever ruck/pack I always have handy for the season. Thank you Sir!
Well that is something us civvies don’t see everyday. Thanks, Major, for the insight. Carry on.
Because civvies don't need to know this information since they rarely have to navigate using physical maps in this modern era. Still a good idea for such skills to be taught. It's probably one of the most essential life skills a person should know to survive an event.
Get out of the city and do some backcountry backpacking. Plenty of "Civvies" know how to use a map, cut and fold a map, navigate, orienteer, plan a route.
@@BxBxProductionsBruh. This guuuuy lmfaooo
@SteveSherman-ij5gm 😏
I actually use a similar technique to make what was once called the "hipster PDA" - essentially an 8-page book that can be created from a single sheet of paper. It's created almost exactly like the map, but with 8 cells instead of 16.
This is a hell of a trick.
Also workes great with a waterproof bag. Thanks and see you in the next one.
Thank you so much for explaining why maps I get from the Army Surplus all have cuts! I thought all of them were defective. Now I know how to use them. Thank you very much, sir!
Learned something neat today
You Sir are a "steely-eyed missile man". Thanks for the very entertaining explanation of how that plays out.
Been doing this for years to make mini notebooks. Same folds, same cut, but you can fold the thing back over itself to make it completely stable and turn the booklet it makes back over to read/use the 'inside' pages.
Very helpful for keeping things organized once you get the hang of the reversing pages.
Cool to see another use of it, and extra impressive for the usage in military situations.
That is about the coolest thing I've seen this year!
Suggestion:
Label the quadrants A,B,C,D
Then the sub quadrants 1,2,3,4
The result will be easier to understand than sixteen letters.
in sweden we have a sport call orienteering where people run around the woods with maps to try get through terrain from A to B to C in the quickest way possible just following a map! its pretty fun!
I heard there are only like 7 people in all of Sweden so you have pretty good odds at winning
@@VivaLaRazsa actually we are 8 people!
For some years back in my youth (the 1950s) I was a navigator in a rally team. I learned to cut and fold my (UK) Ordinance Survey, 1" to 1 mile maps like this for easy handling while being bounced around in the seat of small cars (Minis, MGs, AH Sprites, etc.)
I would steam and iron my maps before cutting to ensure they were absolutely flat. I would take great care to align the cut and folds, adding Scotch tape along certain edges and folds to ensure details could not be lost. I did the same for the more details 4" to 1 mile OS maps we used for hiking the dales and moors of Britain. In that situation, the maps could be folded small enough to fit in a dry pocket. For Dartmoor, where it was always very wet, I'd cover the entire maps surface with wide scotch tape to waterproof them.
This blog took a lot of time and words to explain a simple process. Just try it. It's very easy.
uk rally her
same in 1966 map nice size for use in rally car
cheers
This was magnificant, I have worked with marine charts and noticed that some of them have this cut on them, obviously deliberate just never knew why, I assumed it had something to do with storing them. But seeing the whole system, how spectacularly simple yet ingenious. Brilliant video.
Simple and efficient. Nice.
Great tip! Not taught in most navigation classes !
Very slick! I learned something very valuable today! I've been using maps as a USAF targeteer for 35 years and never came across this technique. I wish we had this method for our A-10 pilots when they flew with a stack of 1:50s in their map kit! I'll be using this technique when I lead Jeep trips this year! Thank you for sharing and so clearly explaining! (SMSgt, Retired)
Excellent video!
One cut, 16 panels ...
You read my mind, just yesterday I was looking up a method for map folding that would satisfy this very thing. Well done, brother.
This is awesome. I love these little military tricks and tips.
Nice informative video!
As a 40+ someone from the former Eastern bloc, we had maps instead of GPS (or even offline maps on PCs for looking up if we went somewhere).
I recall GPS receivers and car solution were next to unusable in the early 2000's so I always went for the map and wrote an itinerary for a longer journey.
But printed maps in the 80's and 90's were sold pre-cut. When I was a child I never understood why. :D
What do you mean by "maps IN STEAD of GPS"? Of what use is GPS to you without a map?
@@Octopussyist I referred to the everyday use of the word GPS that is thought of as a map combined with a GPS receiver, centering the map on the GPS position. I wasn't referring to a GPS receiver giving only coordinates.
You can still use a map without a GPS to identify your position based on the landmarks read from the map or based on knowing the exact location before starting navigating based on the map.
Younger people may have no idea about the difference between the two (GPS-based navigation map vs GPS receiver giving only coordinates) so I did not bother elaborating.
Thanks for pointing out.
Even now a days it would be wise to use this technique as a backup. GPS can be disrupted.
Great tip! Thanks so much! I wish i’d have known this a long time ago 😂
That’s the coolest trick I’ve seen you do
These tricks of the trade with landnav are invaluable. Keep it up, Sir.
45 years ago I learned how to do this in the Cub Scouts, orienteering.
Then I became a surveyor, mapmaking and using charts plotted on huge A0 sheets, and immediately learned that you can get the same result without having to cut and weaken the chart if you simply fold it correctly! Then it remains far more resilient to refolding outdoors in the wind...
Absolutely genius
Thank you
Maps... a thing of beauty that has been forgotten. Most people have no idea how to read one much less orienteering.
Outstanding land navigation skills!
I Imagined something like this could be done but never expected it to be so simple yet clever, 10/10! Thanks for the trick
Fantastic information Andrew, thanks for sharing!
I just applied it to an aviation map on NC. Worked like a charm. I wish I had known this years before.
Awesome trick. All my years in LAR using a battle board and I never learned this. How do you water proof it?
map tac peel on laminate
Thanks for passing this technique along!
A stroke of genius!
What I love about your videos is that practicality is first !
I never knew map ASMR existed. Made my head tingle when you kept folding that map.
Awesome video....beautiful piece of knowledge. Thank you.👏🏽🙏🏽🤘🏽
I was an FO in the Army. I had a bunch of maps folded, cut up, all kinds of stuff. For civilians considering some of these things, remember that I had the luxury of access to an unlimited number of maps. I also had the ability to get custom maps printed out for me (I made some friends in Brigade S2). Remember that cuts and creases may make it difficult to draw accurate straight lines across those creases/cuts. Whatever techniques you use will be highly dependent on your particular situation.
Where do you get military maps?
From the military
@@vancodling4223 beat me to it
You can order them online. Just google it. Look for 1:50,000 MGRS.
Edit: there shouldn't be a timestamp here. The ratio is one to fifty thousand.
Just get topographical maps. Same sort of thing.
@@vancodling4223they probably wouldn't give one to you. I don't even know the number to call. Maybe go to a base and ask for a map of the area
That’s pretty cool.
Do you print out your own maps? Order them? Any recommendations for North American areas as far as a supplier?
A road travel map I bought many years ago (generic laminated thing like you'd keep in the glove box) came pre-cut like this. Never knew what it was for. Very surprising just how much versatility you get out of making one small cut like that. Thanks!
Great!! TY
Hi, french army vet here. This is an interesting trick! By us, it was forbidden to cut or damage military maps, since they were to be returned to the Company's sergeant-chief after use, and reused. We had to fold them in a way that the correct portion of terrain was shown, then we put them into plastic sheets. But actually french military maps are much smaller than american ones, and fit perfectly in the field map holder... :))
Hello from romulus Michigan brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for taking us on your adventures through the woods and GOD-BLESS
Great to see the enormous amount of experience in how simple you make this look 😁
after all these years, Finally.
5:30 - 6:40 oh my gawd... we get it....
These kinds of videos are so helpful for when I'm working on my book. Its a military fiction set in a fantasy setting so it helps to know these sorts of tricks I have have characters do to breath .ore life into them.
Thank you
My dad was in the army (101st) and taught me this map trick for my job as a district manager for a cable company. (Pre-Google Maps & smart phones). I had to work all over the city alone in my car, and being pulled over to read and unfold maps was a dangerous proposition. I could hold the map in one hand and be looking at it with both hands on the wheel.
I was ready for a stupid and complicated "trick", but this is actually pretty simple, clever and makes dealing with the map way easier.
Will use next time I'm hiking by map!
Super handy, easier to use as well compared to a massive huge map, makes it small and handy for map use. Thanks for this Andrew 🙌
Incredible! Who thinks of this stuff lol!
Thanks for sharing!!!
A well used map tore along those lines?
Thank you, Sir. Just learned something new for K-9 SAR Rescue. Trying to copy USGS maps to a printer is a task and in keeping Grid lines in proper order, etc and using USGS maps in it’s full form is just way too much out in the field and a hassle.
We use the slotted see-thru plastic Grid Readers from “MapTools” using various compass’s. Again, Thank you for the heads up. It’s much appreciated, Sir!
Great stuff...thank you sir...
Absolutely brilliant,, thank you so much,, wish I'd learned this years ago,, 😂,, so many mountains climbed, with a map blowing in the wind, and getting soaking wet,, 😱,,, 👍🤙🤙
Very useful, never heard of this as I've never enlisted. Thank you for your service, sacrifice, and wisdom.
Very cool! Thank you for the demo on the map fold. That is very cool and well needed skill!!!
Outstanding.Thanks for sharing this map fold technique.
man, I have not cut a map in 10 years now...I remember making map books with 20+ map sheets in Germany--watching the 2LTs learn to use a map that stretched 200x200 kms was always a hoot. LOL
Cool trick bro, never knew this one, but its one for the toolbox. An you are the only one I've ever seen that showed something like this, along with your map reading vids. Thx for the vid Andy
Awesome video ! Ty
In the Cav when we use to patrol the East German and Czech borders we made Mapbooks that folded the same way except ours were full map sheets because we moved too fast and this method was too slow.These are great for foot patrols. In Desert Storm we didn't use maps. We used an acetated blank sheet with grid lines with no numbers. We added the numbers on the acetate and renumbered them as we ran off the map.
I recognize the area in that map. I’m a helicopter pilot stationed there right now…Great video! I love seeing such effective modifications done so elegantly.
From a UK civvie that loves doing Airsoft milsims, this is brilliant and it's going to save my mobile phone from getting shot up now I can use a proper map instead! Thank you!
My grandfather’s ww2 maps all had cuts in them like this that I thought were due to overuse. Now I know the rest of the story! Cheers.