The Compass app comes built-in on every new iPhone, and it's helpful when you want to make sure you're going in the right direction. Here's how to launch the app, calibrate it, and use it to find your ...

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

There’s something about the pull of the great outdoors that seeps into your bones. You start off slow, maybe for a walk in the woods near your house. But soon, that call of the wild has you gearing up ...

If you have a compass, you can know the direction exactly, but not many people carry a compass with them all the time. Also, smartphone apps with a compass function may not be usable in an emergency ...

I like navigating via paper maps. I know that makes me sound old school. But there are actually still a lot of places out there without cell phone service, and those are usually some of the most fun ...

Global positioning systems have revolutionized the way people get from point A to point B. Utilizing satellites and orbital data, GPS devices can ping these satellites and compute location anywhere on ...

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Which way does your front door face? Which direction is your school? The library? Your best friend's house? Being able to visualize directions adds ...

The day before "Superstorm Sandy" came calling, I delivered some camping stuff to a site about a mile into the woods. Instead of taking the usual path, which I could almost follow by feel, I decided ...

This article will save your life. A basic paper map is the simplest, most reliable and most effective way to find your location and navigate somewhere else. But, in the age of GPS and Google Maps, ...