A low altitude Winter traverse across the foothills of Jammu across 9 sections
The US Army Map Service (AMS) was the military cartographic agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1941…
Welcome to “Chapter 8 – Map Sources” of the Alpine Hiking Bootcamp. In this chapter we’ll compare topographic maps of…
Congratulations in mapping your first trail in OSM! The trail is now shown in any OSM web client or mobile…
In the previous module we mapped human settlements based on an external geo-referenced data set. In this module we will…
As mentioned in earlier chapters, human settlements are important base points for the alpine style hiker (food supply, night shelter,…
In module 2 we explore the various ways to contribute to Open Street Maps through the mobile app OSMAnd: Adding…
Congratulations on completing the first 6 chapters of the Alpine Hiking Bootcamp. You now mastered the basic concepts including planning…
A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is a representation of the bare ground (bare earth) topographic surface of the Earth excluding trees, buildings,…
In Chapter 1 we learned about the Geography of the Western Himalayas, Topography (Contours) and various detailed maps like Open…