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Old 14th May 2015, 15:29
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darkroomsource
 
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True North = TRUE north
Magnetic North = wherever the magnetic pole happens to be, and it's not always where you think it is!

If maps used Magnetic North instead of True North, then they'd have to be re-printed quite frequently. Instead they stay the same, and just have a "declination" change made, that you add or subtract to magnetic north to get true north.
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