Why Do Soldiers Cut Their Maps? - Military Map Trick!

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When you expect some tedious trick to do and you get something THIS straightforward and simple. Brilliant.

Fantastic! All these years of re-re-refolding fire maps in windy conditions and now I learn this trick. Thanks!

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!

Instructions unclear, I was using Google maps and now my phone is broken

Many Swedish maps are printed on both sides and made on water resistant material (somewhat like if money and tyvek had an ofspring)

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.

That is the sort of knowledge YouTube is made to share. Thank you Sir.

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.

I remember doing this back in the '60s and '70s but forgot how I was taught. Thanks for re-teaching me.

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

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

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.

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!!

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.

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!!!!

BTW, the Ninja Turtle pencil IS mil-spec.

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.

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!