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Navigation sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Navigation.

The Haversine Formula illustration: a portion of the earth's globe is shown with a green arc drawn between the cities of London, UK and Seattle, WA. The mathematical Haversine formula takes into account the curvature of the earth's surface when calculating the true distance between two points on a curved surface. The haversine formulaMercator Projection illustration: shows the consequences of flattening out a spherical globe. Whilst it's a handy exercise for navigating and producing maps, it can inflate the size of land masses the in the north and the south. In a Mercator projection Greenland is comparable in size with Africa. In reality, it's much smaller. The Mercator projectionThe Southern Cross to find South: Star chart showing how to find South in the Southern hemisphere using star groups called the Southern Cross and The PointersUse the Southern Cross to find South
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