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Just ordered a map from this company, super fast service and reasonable prices. I have no connection with them, just thought I would let people know about a good company!

http://www.dash4it.co.uk/store/

Satnavs are on the way out becuse  theres already google  maps application for them that allow you to turn your smartphone into a satnav.  I wouldnt have thought companies that sell paper maps  have much longer to live   ???

 ::)

Maybe, but there are still dinosaurs out there who, like me, enjoy having a map in their hands. I love sitting with a map, at home, dreaming of places I intend to visit and looking at it all on a map before I go...

Quote from: lincsyokel2 on January 13, 2012, 10:17:10
Satnavs are on the way out becuse  theres already google  maps application for them that allow you to turn your smartphone into a satnav.  I wouldnt have thought companies that sell paper maps  have much longer to live   ???

You can't beat a good old fashioned map when you are out walking. Plus the battery will not wear out when you really need it. My phone shows me where I am, it will show me where to go. It will also show me where I've been, it will show other people where I am. But a map tucked into the rucksack will always be there for backup. Certainly they are needed in the pre planning stage especially if I am away from my pc, as the phone screen is too small to see all the details properly. I expect a tablet type pc would do it better but the posers who use those are usually showing off in a wine bar not trekking the dales.

I like maps and hope they keep going for a long time, but even the purists resort to the internet for some of them. The ordnance survey site is good, for a small subscription you can get any area you want as a print out.

Another map freak here!! ;D ;D

I have a dogeared collection from all the places I've been and love nothing better than poring over them and planning the next excursion. The walking/ hill-walking ones tend not to change much over time.

I went with someone from Abingdon to Waddesdon Manor and the satnav took us all over the place right through a huge amount of traffic and ended up in a Sainsburies carpark in Aylesbury.  We drove back in half the time.

On another occasion ended up in the only remaining medaeval street in Covernty, we could see Ikea but could not reach it in a car.

I like maps too.

I love looking at maps any map, I have my OS maps which if you know how to read a map are very interesting, I'm just in the process of planning my next trip hopefully next month to Snowdonia for four days enjoying the mountains, :)

You can't beat a good map.... and a blazing row...  ;D

Quote from: saddad on January 13, 2012, 16:00:27
You can't beat a good map.... and a blazing row...  ;D

You've got a sat nag as well then. ;D

Nah, she just can't tell left from right consistantly...  :-X

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

Quote from: saddad on January 13, 2012, 16:00:27
You can't beat a good map.... and a blazing row...  ;D

I remember as a child, sitting behind my parents on trips out..... My Mum, for the life of her, simply could not master that left/right thing......
You can imagine....  :-X

Yes I can remember that too! My mum saying :"turn right at the next junction" and my dad turning left!!!

I love maps  :D
Quite irritated by my husband using my phone as a Sat nav on holiday.....several times I ignored him. I got instructions like get into left lane...go right  :o I said I can't go right you told me to get in left lane..there are 3 lanes here.....I went left and 3/4 mile down the road we managed to get a roundabout to get back in the right direction. If we'd used a map I wouldn't have been directed into the left lane.

Got a Tom/Tom Bloody female called Jane tells you when to turn  ::) then she says please turn around and take the first left second right  ;D so its no change for me its still as if O/H is map reading :P ;D

Maps are great, if you can read them.  Not sure which way up they go, and with miserable old man shouting at you in the car, when I get sea sick in a car, and what the bl..dy h..ll is a T junction, oh yes we just missed it.  Maybe they should teach it in school.

I am a Map addict as well.   We have Sat Nav and it has not let us down yet but I still follow where we are going on the map and point out what river or hill or whatever we are passing.  They are wonderful and if I am bored in the house I like nothing better than looking at places I have been. 
;D ;D

Many moons ago when I was dropped out of a Whirlwind(happy to say only on an exercise) the only bit of kit we had for navigation once on the ground was an issue compass(prismatic) and a makeshift map taken from what we could recollect from the last  couple of weeks written on any material that came to hand, needless to say my interest in getting lost is still with me, like the longstanding joke in the British Army, never trust  an Officer with a map, :)

We went on holiday to Cyprus and go lost in the car we hired,we ended up in the green belt ,with four Turkish soldiers pointing guns at us :o i picked up the map and told the OH to look stupidly at the map :P they calmed down and pointed the way out they were quite scary guys and we heard they did shoot  daft folk like us. ??? thank god for that map other than that we might have been arrested. ::)

I use sat navs sometimes for travelling but like to have a roadmap for backup.  When walking, I would rather have a map & compass than GPS anyday.  My kids are 8 and 10 and took them on their first walk where I started to teach them how to read a map.  Only an hour with 5-6 turns but they enjoyed it all the same.  Don't reckon they will do it again though until the weather warms up a bit.