10-02-2014, 01:18 PM | #31 |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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Re: Navigation, maps and TL
Yeah, it's a real word. What I mean is that the way the skill aggregation occurred during the conversion, it seems that there's a reason to at least suspect (though not be sure, as GURPS trait names can differ from real-world definitions) that the orienteering courses are included in GURPS Navigation. Probably. Not sure.
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10-02-2014, 01:19 PM | #32 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: Navigation, maps and TL
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Nothing prevents you from noting that the real world activity of orienteering falls under Navigation (Land). Bill Stoddard |
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10-02-2014, 01:27 PM | #33 | |
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Re: Navigation, maps and TL
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Most people don't pay attention to their surroundings. I don't know if this is innate or they have conditioned themselves this way to cope with city life.
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10-02-2014, 01:29 PM | #34 | ||
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10-02-2014, 01:31 PM | #35 |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
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Re: Navigation, maps and TL
I have something similar. Though for semi-obvious reasons I've not gone for a walk in the woods. I thought my father had something similar, but discovered this summer that I'm much better than him at finding my way back to the beginning point in an unfamiliar place.
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10-02-2014, 01:34 PM | #36 | ||
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Re: Navigation, maps and TL
That's weird since it's called a "land navigation course" not "a map reading course".
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10-02-2014, 02:14 PM | #37 | |
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Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: Navigation, maps and TL
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If you know that the temple you want to get to is on that mountain, that could be Area Knowledge or Navigation. If the mountain is over the horizon, but you know that that river flows down from the area where that mountain is, and if you follow the river until you get the mountain in sight, that's probably Navigation. Especially if you have a map that shows where the river is in relation to the mountain, and a bunch of other landmarks, so you're relying on a cognitive model that's larger than you can perceive at once and includes places you've never been. But in principle the "map" could be, say, a long poem that describes landmarks and their relation to each other, and that you've memorized. In either case it's landmark-based Navigation rather than dead reckoning or celestial navigation. If you say, "The mountain is at latitude X and longitude Y, and we're at latitude P and longitude Q, so we need to go thirty-eight miles 23° east of due north, and the map shows there's a river five miles east of here whose source is near the mountain, so we should first make for the river and travel along it," that's Navigation at TL5. Where we drew the line was at relying on abstract coordinates in some form, rather than "Oh, now I need to turn left." Bill Stoddard |
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10-02-2014, 02:26 PM | #38 | |
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10-02-2014, 02:51 PM | #39 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: Navigation, maps and TL
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The daughter of Austin Tappen Wright told a story of her father teaching her and her siblings to sail, and of her plotting a course formally for a place she meant to sail to—which she could see perfectly well across the bay, but she wanted to navigate! Bill Stoddard |
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