BEARING

 

1. In LAND NAVIGATION, a bearing is the angle between a line connecting two points and a north-south line, or meridian. 


2. A MAGNETIC BEARING is measured in relation to magnetic north, that is, using the direction toward the magnetic pole (in northeastern Canada) as a reference.


3. Bearings can be measured in two systems, Mils and Degrees.


4. According to Oxford Dictionary, bearing is the direction or position of something relative to a fixed point, normally measured in degrees and with the magnetic north as zero.

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CARDINAL / COMPASS DIRECTION

The 4 major cardinal direction points are : NORTH, SOUTH, EAST & WEST

Intermediate (in other words, intercardinal or ordinal) directions are :

 north-east (NE),

 north-west (NW), 

south-west (SW) 

& 

south-east (SE)

also

DIRECTION CORRESPONDS TO A DEGREE OF A COMPASS 


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COMPASS 

•  Used to find a direction or bearing
• Invented in ancient China around 247 B.C and was used for navigation by the 11th century.
• DRY COMPASS was invented in medieval Europe around 1300. 
• Early 20th century, came the invention of liquid-filled compass.
• Besides navigational use, compass is used in building orientation, mining and astronomy. 
• Other modern compasses include thumb compass, gyrocompass, solid-state compass, Qibla compass and so on.

Done by, Sharifah.