Need A Map?

[queenbee]

The only way I can read a map is to turn it upside down, I than get Right and Left a bit easier. My OH gets annoyed at me for doing this but with my sense of direction and not being able to do left and right very well this really works for me.

[queenbee]

[saddad]

It's called orienting,,  :-*

[Kea]

I have a good inbuilt sense of direction.....changing hemispheres messed it up for about 3/4 weeks but only the first time.
But I just love studying maps......I mean proper maps not road maps....there is so much interesting information on them.

[BarriedaleNick]

When I go out walking we always use a map with the route marked out although these days I have to enlarge the darned things on a photocopier to read them properly.  I do take my smartphone to track where I have been (runkeeper FTW) as I can then view my walks and cycle rides online.  I have a terrible sense of direction and in my house "right" is a variable not a constant..
OS maps are almost magical to me!

[tonybloke]

So it's a big vote for maps, oh well Lincs u can't win them all.   ;)

yep, I've got OS maps of all of East Anglia, the county where thingy-nav's don't always work!!

our local high school actually teaches kids how to read OS maps, and all the pupils get the local map (OS No 40) free!!

[ACE]

our local high school actually teaches kids how to read OS maps, and all the pupils get the local map (OS No 40) free!!

That sounds a very sensible idea. I should hope it is taught in every school and a free map thrown in. Unlike the free map we got at school, coloured pink and blue so we could learn all about how great we were with the Empire.

[Kea]

So it's a big vote for maps, oh well Lincs u can't win them all.   ;)

yep, I've got OS maps of all of East Anglia, the county where thingy-nav's don't always work!!

our local high school actually teaches kids how to read OS maps, and all the pupils get the local map (OS No 40) free!!

Yes and there's no mountains or any useful highpoints (excluding church spires!) to help either.

What a good idea...though my boys were in scouts and holidays fell walking helped them. My son had to lead his D0fE group all the time including when someone else was supposed to be leader because he was the only one who understood reading a map and using a compass.

[saddad]

our local high school actually teaches kids how to read OS maps, and all the pupils get the local map (OS No 40) free!!

That sounds a very sensible idea. I should hope it is taught in every school and a free map thrown in. Unlike the free map we got at school, coloured pink and blue so we could learn all about how great we were with the Empire.

Officially it is... certainly upto 2009 when I left teaching all year 7 school children were issued a free OS Landranger map which covered their local area...
To what degree the staff taught map reading was variable... but compass directions, map symbols and co-ordinates (Grid references) were on the National Curriculum...  :-\

[Mr Smith]

I  bought myself another compass a 'Silva Expedition' and use the Laminated OS maps which again cost a bit more than the normal OS ones, now its just a case of getting out there and doing it, :)