1 50000 scale military map protractor how to#

Your target is therefore located in the 1,000-meter square identified as 8904. The closest northing line to the south of your target is 04. The closest easting line to the west of your target’s location is 89. Once again, start at the bottom left of the map, and READ RIGHT UP. Reading the plotter, your coordinates are 88240450 Plot Map Coordinates - Plotting Point B To do so, place the horizontal axis of the 1:25,000-scale plotter on the 04 northing line, as shown, moving it until the vertical axis lines up with the targeted X. So, now you’ve located your target within a one kilometer square, now use the plotter to locate it within a 10-meter square. The intersection of these two lines (8804) puts you at the southwest corner of the 1,000 meter square containing your target location. Next, go up that easting line until you come to the closest northing line to the south of your target location, in this case 04. Remember, the coordinate itself does not pinpoint the target, but simply describes the southwest corner of the 10-meter square in which the target lies. In this case, our plotted coordinates will locate our targets within a 10-meter square. We’ll plot three targeted points: A, B, and C.

1 50000 scale military map protractor how to#

Once you understand the UTM and MGRS grid systems, and know how to use one plotter, you can pretty easily figure out how to use most other plotters.

There are civilian plotters available in other scales, such as 1:24,000.

In these examples, we’ll be using a “blank map” with a 1:25,000 grid. This tool is designed to work with the military’s 1:25,000-scale maps, as well as the 1:50,000 and 1:100,000 maps. Let's see now how to plot map coordinates using a military protractor. Announcement: My online Land Navigation course includes four hours of video instruction, and two downloadable PDF books, all for about the same price as a typical paperback book.