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Maps, Do you use them?
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Florence61 | Report | 1 Mar 2014 09:08 |
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! |
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JustJohn | Report | 1 Mar 2014 08:21 |
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. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 1 Mar 2014 07:59 |
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. |
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Elizabethofseasons | Report | 28 Feb 2014 18:38 |
Dear All |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 27 Feb 2014 07:55 |
I use Mapquest. |
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Dame*Shelly*("\(*o*)/") | Report | 26 Feb 2014 22:17 |
If i don't know were im going its simple i just don't go |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 26 Feb 2014 22:10 |
:-D Lady Scozz - my attitude when told I'm the navigator! |
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LadyScozz | Report | 26 Feb 2014 20:54 |
We never get lost. |
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Sharron | Report | 26 Feb 2014 19:57 |
I had to go to Cambridge a couple of years ago. |
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Graham | Report | 26 Feb 2014 16:48 |
I like to see if the places in films or programs actually exist |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 26 Feb 2014 14:38 |
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. |
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lollybasher | Report | 26 Feb 2014 14:20 |
Well I no longer feel like the odd one out. I love maps and can look at them for hours. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 26 Feb 2014 12:14 |
We tend not to use maps while we are in out the car as we rely on the Sat Nav. It does help to look on google earth or in a map book before we go to a new place to get an idea of how far it is and in which direction. |
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Huia | Report | 26 Feb 2014 08:46 |
When I was down at my mailbox yesterday a big truck and trailer unit stopped to ask me for directions. He had been over the hill to the valley directed there by his satnav or tomtom or whatever. Unfortunately there are 2 or 3 locked gates between the valley and his destination. I presume the satnav just saw the road marked on a map and assumed it was navigable to all and sundry. It was a long way to go round by the regular roads. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 26 Feb 2014 08:43 |
Last year, when OH was sick, the ambulance driver used SatNav to find us....... and she got lost. We live in a small town, about 5000 population. |
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SueCar | Report | 26 Feb 2014 08:00 |
Yes, I use all the different ways too. Last week I used Bing Maps to find nearest florist to my Auntie's house. Spoke to florist next day on phone, fab flowers for Auntie's birthday. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 26 Feb 2014 07:08 |
I like maps and always managed to find my way around with the aid of a road atlas, even when driving on my own. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 26 Feb 2014 00:22 |
Maybe it's a genealogy thing......... looks like we all like maps. |
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Janet | Report | 25 Feb 2014 22:48 |
It's very interesting that so many females admit to liking maps. It's supposed to be a man thing. I love maps. Spent all my computer years at work staring at a map 8 hours a day. I have old maps,new maps but never small a-z maps in small book form. I'm on my second sat nav but only use it in conjunction with the map. |
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Andysmum | Report | 25 Feb 2014 22:22 |
Maps - I love the pre-planning, working out the best way from A to B and writing it down in a form that I can follow/memorise if I'm on my own. |