General Chat

We have Sat nav and maps, oh prefers the former and I check on the map out of interest. Yes have looked up the streets where some ancestors lived, fascinating.

I also love Google maps.
When looking to book a holiday, I go around the place on Google.

Last year, on Google maps, I found the Smithy in Cornwall where my g grandfather was a master blacksmith.
I could have visited the village and never found it. Much cheaper to see it on the PC :-D

Hello, Elizabeth :)

I love maps - old ones, new ones, ones in books.

Couldn't do without printed maps - being very deaf a satnav would be useless - and very dangerous if I were tempted to look at the screen when driving! And I like to look at maps to plan in advance - do print them from the computer sometimes. Always did like maps, had some lovely jigsaws with maps which were favourites

I love old street maps, and have a few of where my ancestors lived.
I don't drive, so am usually navigating. One friend is a total technophobe - no mobile, no computer and definitely no sat-nav!
The glory of maps is it can be misread - we've found quite a few interesting places and pubs that way :-D

When I travel with my sister, we usually use a sat-nav, and she has a map of the journey on her tablet, which I am in charge of, so when she's bored with the route the sat-nav is taking us, I look at the tablet and find an alternative one.
Have to admit, when travelling to the place our brother is renovating in deepest, darkest Somerset, the sat-nav is invaluable!!

I love maps and can happily browse Ordnance Survey ones for ages, looking at old villages where ancestors lived. I've bought quite a few in charity shops over the years and enjoy noting changes between their times and present day.Many areas have changed very little and I think my ancestors would still recognise much of their villages.

A couple of Christmas' ago I was given a map of the area I was born and from around that time. Gosh what alot has changed there in the way of 'sprawl' development along the south coast of UK , but I remember how it used to be and comparing the maps shows the stark differences.

Gwyn

Hello Elizabeth
Yes we always have a map in the car ,plus the sat nav.Also printed out directions lol
It can get quite confusing with all three :-S
No on the ancestors.I'm not sure where mine all came from yet(I'm adopted ) but am just starting to research them :-D

I have some old maps that I find useful. Some of the streets where my ancestors lived no longer exist, due to redevelopment. So I can see where those streets used to be. :-)

I don't use a sat nav because I spent far too many years as a van driver without one and I love maps and road atlases.

For my mediaeval research I am using maps that are of a later era but there is one that is on- line that is reputed to be the first roadmap of Britain. It is called the Gough Map and you need to get your eye in to look at it because it is on an East- West projection but it is well worth a look if you like maps.

I love maps and can spend hours looking at them - UK maps and world atlases

Dear All

Hello


Do you use the A-Z atlas for directions when travelling by car?

and have you looked at area maps where your ancestors lived?




Take gentle care
Best wishes
Elizabeth,
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