General Chat

I love maps, old and new, and often look up places on Google Earth or on maps and atlases, usually when something in a book or on TV or internet has piqued my interest. Tend to navigate with maps too as we don't have SatNav in the car (OH hates it too) - we use the smartphone if we need it for finding a specific road/address.

I like to see if the places in films or programs actually exist

I had to go to Cambridge a couple of years ago.

Usually I would get the park and ride from Trumpington but was told there would be enough parking where I was going on a Saturday so I printed off a Google route.

As we were leaving home Fred complained of backache which made me wonder if I should go at all but he insisted he would not need me at home. I was, however, a bit wound up by this.

We followed the instructions to the letter but could not find the destination at all.

Having wasted much time looking, a red street atlas was purchased which showed the destination to be on the other side of town. Of course, having spent all that time driving around and looking, we were far to late to find parking space and I was practically hysterical with being so wound up by it all that we went home.

What a waste of a bleeding day!

We never get lost.

We just see lots of new places :-D

:-D Lady Scozz - my attitude when told I'm the navigator!

A couple of years ago, I saw an interesting place name on a roadside, so I said 'turn right' to my driver.
We 'found' the Rollright stones, that he had visited 40 years ago, (in his vague hippy phase) and couldn't remember where they were!!

If i don't know were im going its simple i just don't go

but i love Google map

I use Mapquest.

I think they are the ones who tell you 'If you have reached so and so street, you have gone too far', which is quite helpful!

My o.h. is impatient and panics if we go astray - he doesn't always take in my instructions so we do sometimes go right round a roundabout to try again for the correct exit. If he thinks we are 'getting lost' for some reason he panics and drives faster, which is completely unhelpful. I have to say I am always able to get us out of a muddle and find a way through if we do mess up.

Lizx

Dear All

Hello

Thank you kindly for the very interesting replies.

It always good when people reply and I see a few new people
who I have not had contact with before.


I am glad you all liked talking about the maps and perhaps it may help your research too.


Take gentle care
My best wishes
Elizabeth,
xx

Meant to say that I too like looking at the areas where my relatives came from especially as my Dad's side came from some distance from where he spent his married life.

Lizx

I thought it was a man's thing to stare at maps for ages. You must all have been in the Territorial Army, like me :-D :-D All that square bashing, cleaning rifles and reading maps.

Have just looked in my map box and pulled a few out. Alaska, Isle of Man OS, Scunthorpe local red book, Bedford street master, York road finder, Sardinien (about half of Sardinia), OS of Praslin in Seychelles, Picardy, Super Karte Deutschland.

Anyone want a look up? Favourites are two old OS maps of Vale of Glamorgan and Valleys. About 1850 - or 10BC (10 years before coal) :-D :-D

We dont have a sat nav and I prefer looking at maps. I have googled all my rellies adresses and some in the north are still there like the house where my grandmother was born in 1910!

When I left England, I wrote out my route all planned from using a road atlas. I noted all the main roads, motorway junctions etc and was so easy to use.

As someone else said, I too would find it distracting looking at a screen whilst driving. You need to keep your eyes on the road all the time. Im surprised that reading a sat nav isnt classed the same as reading a text. I know it would be hands free but you still are looking away for a second.

Up here sat nav wouldnt be much use as there are so made lanes and side roads not even marked on the map.

maybe its just me, but signposts do the job perfectly. If you plan your journey the day before then really shouldnt be getting lost or if you do, you wont be that far away from your destination.

Whenever tourists walk along our road, they always knock on our door for informatiom, ie is there a bus, where is the local shop etc. But when im out, I always get asked directions. Does anyone else get asked this? My mum said it's because you look like someone who always knows where they are going lol

Florence
in the hebrides :-)