Method and apparatus of physically moving a portable unit to view an image of a stationary map

A portable unit comprising:

• a background image of a stationary map stored at a given scale in a memory;
• a first location and at least one other location presented in an image displayed on a screen of the portable unit at the given scale, wherein
• the image displayed on the screen matches and remains superimposes over a corresponding portion of the background image of the stationary map;
• and
• the at least one other location located by a known vector with respect to the first location displayed on the screen, wherein
• the given scale of the background image and the image presented on the screen of the portable unit is magnified to display a larger scaled image containing only the first location and the portable unit is moved by a user along the known vector to display the at least one other location on the screen in the corresponding portion of the background image of the stationary map.

A method of moving a portable unit by a user a directional distance displaying a first location to display a new location comprising the steps of:

• storing of a background image of a stationary map at a given scale in a memory;
• displaying an image on a screen of the portable unit matched and remains superimposed to the corresponding portion of the background image of the stationary map;
• locating the first location and the new location on the screen by the user;
• identifying a known vector by the user corresponding to the new location with respect to the first location;
• and
• magnifying the given scale on the screen of the portable unit and the given scale of the background image to display only the first location, wherein
• the portable unit is moved by the user along the known vector to display the image of the new location on the screen corresponding the new location of the stationary map.