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Maps, Do you use them?
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Elizabethofseasons | Report | 25 Feb 2014 19:38 |
Dear All |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 25 Feb 2014 19:45 |
I love maps and can spend hours looking at them - UK maps and world atlases |
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Sharron | Report | 25 Feb 2014 20:15 |
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. |
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Graham | Report | 25 Feb 2014 20:17 |
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. :-) |
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Jane | Report | 25 Feb 2014 20:19 |
Hello Elizabeth |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 25 Feb 2014 20:29 |
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. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 25 Feb 2014 21:13 |
I love old street maps, and have a few of where my ancestors lived. |
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 25 Feb 2014 21:29 |
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 |
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Joy | Report | 25 Feb 2014 21:38 |
Hello, Elizabeth :) |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 25 Feb 2014 21:58 |
I also love Google maps. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 25 Feb 2014 22:17 |
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. |
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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. |
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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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LadyScozz | Report | 26 Feb 2014 00:22 |
Maybe it's a genealogy thing......... looks like we all like maps. |
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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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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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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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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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+++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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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. |