Educational Materials

Find below links to printed materials which can be used to support general education about the U.S. National Grid.  Presentations available for viewing and download in support of these general training needs can be found under the “General Lectures” tab of “Training”.  Training materials related to several theme specific topics can be found under the appropriate tab, this section.

(WARNING – Do not use the “auto rotate”, “scale to fit”, “print to fit” or any similar feature of your printer when printing the grid reader or training maps below. Those printer features will destroy the accuracy and utility of the training items!)

• An Introduction to Standards-Based GIT and the U.S. National Grid (2p., 676K, PDF)
• Basic Instructions for USNG Teaching Kit (1 p., 28K, Word doc)
• FGDC info sheets
  • Sheet 1: Read right then up (1 p., 164K, PDF)
  • Sheet 2: World wide context (1 p., 196K, PDF)
  • Sheet 3: Reading USNG Coordinates: Using a coordinate scale (1 p., 188K, PDF)
  • Sheet 4: The US National Grid (USNG): A Simple and Powerful Geospatial Tool (1 p., 77K, PDF)
  • Sheets 4 and 1: (2 p., 235K, PDF)
• Grid reader template (1 p., 140K, PDF) (A variety of low cost grid readers are available for purchase using the “Readers” tab.)
• Gulf training map (2 p., 3.2 MB, PDF)
• National Emergency Training Center training map (2p., 328K, PDF)
• Washington, DC and vicinity demo map (1 p., 849K, PDF)
• Washington, DC demo map (1 p., 487K, PDF)
• Washington, DC practice points (1 p., 8K, PDF)